David SeamanHostPeytonGuest
But yeah, this past weekend was pretty crazy, because seemingly out of nowhere, Bernie Sanders and all these other leading Democrats declared a crusade on AI, basically.

They seem to think that this business software is operating at like a Terminator level.


Not the people who've worked with it for four years, but the dude who worked there for six weeks.

What if they jump USB drives? What if they can go from one drive to the next and take over the whole planet and kill everybody? And, you know, there's just no mechanism for that to happen.

It's like saying, you know, what if aliens invade tomorrow and kill everyone? Okay, well, we're not going to use that as a...

We're going to pretend that that's not going to happen because we have no evidence for it.
Exactly.
Where's your proof that we're going to be invaded by aliens

tomorrow? So to live your life as if there's going to be an alien invasion would be pretty stupid.

And here you've got people who overnight are treating these software systems like they're something dangerous.

And so I'm not the one who thought of this, but a lot of people said this is some kind of power grab.

You want new government abilities to tell people what to do when it comes to this kind of software.

I think mostly people wanna talk about inflation and the war, the cost of the gas.

Instead the Democrats have pivoted to this indecipherable science fiction pitch.

People yelling at me, why do you want to kill us all? If you build it, everybody dies.

But yeah, this past weekend was pretty crazy, because seemingly out of nowhere, Bernie Sanders and all these other leading Democrats declared a crusade on AI, basically.

They seem to think that this business software is operating at like a Terminator level.


Not the people who've worked with it for four years, but the dude who worked there for six weeks.

What if they jump USB drives? What if they can go from one drive to the next and take over the whole planet and kill everybody? And, you know, there's just no mechanism for that to happen.

It's like saying, you know, what if aliens invade tomorrow and kill everyone? Okay, well, we're not going to use that as a...

We're going to pretend that that's not going to happen because we have no evidence for it.
Exactly.
Where's your proof that we're going to be invaded by aliens

tomorrow? So to live your life as if there's going to be an alien invasion would be pretty stupid.

And here you've got people who overnight are treating these software systems like they're something dangerous.

And so I'm not the one who thought of this, but a lot of people said this is some kind of power grab.

You want new government abilities to tell people what to do when it comes to this kind of software.

I think mostly people wanna talk about inflation and the war, the cost of the gas.

Instead the Democrats have pivoted to this indecipherable science fiction pitch.

People yelling at me, why do you want to kill us all? If you build it, everybody dies.
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