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The Dissonance Between Chatbots and the End of the World
There's quite a striking analogy they draw at the start where Tristan Harris, one of the guys given this presentation says we're at a similar stage as though it's 1944 and the Manhattan Project is six to nine months away from perfecting the world's first nuclear weapon. And I think for a lot of people, me included, that's quite a jarring analogy. How do you kind of reconcile that dissonance that people feel that this analogy is fundamentally kind of trivial and fun and yet these people are saying it says, it say, it's potentially destructive as the nuclear bomb? Yeah, and it is. It is an extraordinary comparison - but there are important differences. The work of the
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