I read this article, linked on HN, and when I went back to the comments I saw the post was flagged and there was no option to comment.
I changed the title of this submission to reflect what I see the essay as; a statement of concern about how large language models are being developed and used.
If the fact that the five people featured and quoted are all women bothers you, consider exploring that on your own before whining about or diminishing it. My feeling is that we're all the richer for including people from diverse backgrounds because I am so far from knowing everything, and I'm curious what others know and why. Whining and diminishing diversity, equity, and inclusion feels small-minded, fearful, ignorant; I get enough exposure to that destruction, and I'm neither a person of color nor a woman (I'm a White cisgender male who grew up financially poor and experientially rich, thanks largely to caring adults and public libraries).
I'd rather AI not be made, and that we do something more like what an Amish community I'm familiar with does: they decide what technology to allow. I'm not putting them on a pedestal here, as they have plenty of problems, too (the often autocratic way in which such decisions are made, for one)- we will always have problems, incidentally or intentionally.
I recommend reading the whole essay before reacting to the title of it. Feel free to react to anything I wrote here, though; I have my own insecurities and ignorance of so much, including unknown unknowns of course, and I don't claim to profess "the one right way" to proceed; I have a value set based on my life experiences, and I appreciate living in a representative democracy where other people can argue about and vote their values.
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[ 0.22 ms ] story [ 14.8 ms ] threadI changed the title of this submission to reflect what I see the essay as; a statement of concern about how large language models are being developed and used.
If the fact that the five people featured and quoted are all women bothers you, consider exploring that on your own before whining about or diminishing it. My feeling is that we're all the richer for including people from diverse backgrounds because I am so far from knowing everything, and I'm curious what others know and why. Whining and diminishing diversity, equity, and inclusion feels small-minded, fearful, ignorant; I get enough exposure to that destruction, and I'm neither a person of color nor a woman (I'm a White cisgender male who grew up financially poor and experientially rich, thanks largely to caring adults and public libraries).
I'd rather AI not be made, and that we do something more like what an Amish community I'm familiar with does: they decide what technology to allow. I'm not putting them on a pedestal here, as they have plenty of problems, too (the often autocratic way in which such decisions are made, for one)- we will always have problems, incidentally or intentionally.
I recommend reading the whole essay before reacting to the title of it. Feel free to react to anything I wrote here, though; I have my own insecurities and ignorance of so much, including unknown unknowns of course, and I don't claim to profess "the one right way" to proceed; I have a value set based on my life experiences, and I appreciate living in a representative democracy where other people can argue about and vote their values.