Everyone should read this thread.
I’m serious.
It’s important.
But there’s something about it that’s bothering me: if you’re influential enough to help move the needle among people of faith, are you really so weak that you’ll let flash and dazzle change your principles?
It’s just stuff, luxury or not. If you’re influential at all, you’re probably no stranger to that kind of thing.
I’m more interested in other, more worrying reasons why people drawn in this way might be persuaded.
For example: what if the evidence shown to you is doing the work?
What if your priors are really challenged by getting a peek behind the curtain?
I don’t like the cloak and dagger. I don’t like the NDAs. But if I were invited to see the bleeding edge stuff, I’d go. Better to know than not to know.
If you don’t have the moral fiber to resist changing your tune due to flattery and luxury, you’re not a real leader anyway.
This is deeply disturbing:
Anthropic secretly invited religious leaders to SF to advise them on AI safety, had them sign NDAs, but then primarily tried to convince them Claude has a soul & moral standing, all while wining & dining them to the max. 1/ tinyurl.com/preview/296b5z…
