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> I think one of the biggest mistakes [...] we see ourselves as something greater than animals and other things.

That's not the issue. The problem is that we're teaching laypeople that these systems are ahead of where they actually are. This leads to fear, malinvestment, over-regulation, and a whole host of other bad outcomes.

We need to have honest conversations about the capabilities of these systems now and into the future, but the communication channels are being flooded by hypesters, doomsayers, and irrelevant voices.

> Animism perceives all things—animals, plants, rocks, ...

And that's just hooey.




> And that's just hooey.

Well, I mean Google animism. It's hooey from your point of view.




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