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Religious scholars met with Anthropic

160 points · 416 comments · bookofjoe

  1. cmiles8 · · focus · HN ↗
    Every bubble goes through this phase just before it pops. Pre-implosion Twitter had tons of folks doing useless “research” projects, WeWork had folks studying furniture design’s impact on wellbeing, and so on.

    When you’re more worried about this sort of stuff vs generating profit then the history books strongly indicate that’s usually not a good omen of what’s coming next.

    1. bonoboTP · · focus · HN ↗
      What do you expect to happen? The technology to disappear and for us to go back to living like it's 2021? It will just pop and be gone?
      1. dev1ycan · · focus · HN ↗
        No, but these ridiculous valuations and over buying will shut down, and in return most of these level of models appearing after a while will cost ~100$/month or higher, the costs of hardware/land/energy etc are too high for the current costs so these companies will go down under
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