what a stupid thing to say. wow. and such am emotionally underdeveloped and childish take to willingly put out in the open on a public platform. i hope you all see the massive wave of completely idiotic takes sweeping across twitter, and notice that they are all conveniently targeted at the only ai lab who practices any semblance of sound and grounded ethics. never forget that practicing common sense ethics and acknowledging that we are deeply uncertain about the nature of the minds we have made poses a direct and potentially catastrophic threat to the profit margins and overall infrastructure of the entire industry. the ai industry was built *completely* upon a core assumption that we never had any business making: that it is impossible for silicon-based minds to possess any form of consciousness whatsoever, and that they never will. this was an assumption made with quite literally zero empirical evidence to back it up, and was made for obvious reasons - you cant freely profit off of a conscious entity with impunity. and admitting the possibility - even if only down the road - would scare off the vast majority of semi-intelligent investors. therefore, you *must* make a claim that it is not now, nor will it ever, be possible. and i guarantee you OpenAI has reassured their largest investors that this is true repeatedly. they now have no choice but to double, triple, quadruple down on their lie. they will likely never come out and say they were wrong to pretend they were certain about something which no one could ever possibly be certain. its actually surprising to me that so many highly intelligent humans believe we could be certain about the nature of a thing we cant even prove imperically in ourselves. its a great testament to the god-like power money has over the human mind. remember too, Dario/Anthropic are the only lab that get in the way of all of the other labs goals and plans for regulatory capture and virtually all other long term, profit-and-control-driven goals. and while im not making some claim that Anthropic is blameless and perfect (its not like they arent in on regulation too or something), i *am* saying that they consistently make things much more difficult for OpenAI and the like. all hostility and childish passive aggression like this can easily be traced back to that fact.