interesting to read the reactions here regarding wfh even though it was less than a minute of the whole conversation. all i would say about that is this: it appears that we haven't found a way that has made "better" working conditions (and remote work) bring out the best results at a macro scale. there is an element of truth to what he said and as companies grow very big, they will always face stuff like this. in tech, anyways, we want to have the cake and eat it too.
now that i have lost 95% of the ones who bothered reading this, i would take bigger offense to his perspective on the ai space. he appears to have drunk the koolaid as well and it is very interesting to see that a lot of future use cases are still around llm and not other equally-impactful works. especially when he mentioned using AI in defense applications.
having a good offensive system as a way to defend oneself seems like the same dangerous slippery slope that brought the atomic bomb. while not giving specific examples, he used the tech used in current war in east europe as a point to support this. an actual example used there are drones that self-identify and explode targets from the defender's side (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36875446). no matter what you feel about either parties, this is just a few steps away from a black mirror episode. plus the major military powers want to advance on this before the others and this arms race is what worries me more than "muh productivity". the fact that most of the discourse, whether in the lecture hall or in the comments here, seems to not bat an eye around this subject makes me anxious about the public attitude towards this.
now that i have lost 95% of the ones who bothered reading this, i would take bigger offense to his perspective on the ai space. he appears to have drunk the koolaid as well and it is very interesting to see that a lot of future use cases are still around llm and not other equally-impactful works. especially when he mentioned using AI in defense applications.
having a good offensive system as a way to defend oneself seems like the same dangerous slippery slope that brought the atomic bomb. while not giving specific examples, he used the tech used in current war in east europe as a point to support this. an actual example used there are drones that self-identify and explode targets from the defender's side (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36875446). no matter what you feel about either parties, this is just a few steps away from a black mirror episode. plus the major military powers want to advance on this before the others and this arms race is what worries me more than "muh productivity". the fact that most of the discourse, whether in the lecture hall or in the comments here, seems to not bat an eye around this subject makes me anxious about the public attitude towards this.