How do I know the earth didn't spontaneously appear into existence yesterday? This line of argumentation is stupid.

The desire to be "centrist" on HN is perplexing to me.

The fact that Elon, a white south african, made his AI go crazy by adding some text about "white genocide", is factual and should be taken into consideration if you want to have an honest discussion about ethics in tech. Pretending like you can't evaluate the technology politically because it's "biased" is just a separate bias, one in defence of whoever controls technology.

Holy shit I can't imagine being so anti-human that I would worship a piece of paper. Pray to your contract Gods bud, I'll live my life the way I want

It also conveniently benefits him greatly.

Remember when Gates refused to lift IP restrictions on the COVID vaccine

https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-the-world-loses-under-bi...