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birdalbrocum
> And like the communists of old, AI scientists believe in their revolution; the old myths of tragic hubris don’t trouble them at all.

What an utterly bullsh*t way to say I don't know anything about history nor how world works.

lyu07282
When people say communists you can safely just skim over it, its a meaningless word shaped by 50+ years of the most expansive propaganda project in human history. It is just a synonym that means "bad people" it has no substance beyond that.
akk0
"just like the bad-thing-doers of old, today's bad-thing-doers believe what they're doing is actually good" is a keen insight in itself when broadly applied, but useless for distinguishing bad things from good things.
ghaff
Being against the "uncritical adoption" of just about anything seems like pretty much common sense, which is admittedly often not common.
creatonez
Obviously? Maybe respond to the contents and not just the title of the article?
jkhdigital
Hard to take seriously a paper that begins with a statement that the “uncritical adoption” of combustion engines was a “blunder” by scientists.
ahsdgTra
Show the Ellison and Blair interviews to your students. They are not even hiding their agenda (interviews start at 9:29):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BLZ3pmQTZA

"Citizens will be on their best behavior." (almost exact quote)

"We will use these wonderful technologies to gather and connect data about everyone." (paraphrased)