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It always surprises me when someone starts with "AI safety is a sex cult inspired by bad science fiction" or "prompt engineering is ritual magic without the fun sacred names" and then wheels to "but chatbots and 'Agentic AI' are still the wave of the future!"
I guess maybe the sex cult and the ritual magic make the standard grifting seem credible by comparison? Like, E-Dub and company don't pass the sniff test but Saltman and friends seem like reasonable adults who can't all be wrong?
For real. Even if he was at all genuine about worrying that not pushing back against anti-AI sentiment was setting the stage for more problematic anti-science backlash he still got lost in the sauce almost immediately.