Full revisions + print + PDF run of my 2022 game co-created with
@mapcrow.bsky.social Diamond 20
(Until further notice, it's a lavish convention-only prototype)
Evan Torner
@guyintheblackhat.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of German, Niehoff Professor of Film & Media Studies at U of Cincinnati; Scholar of East German cinema, science fiction, and role-playing games. He/Him. Bi. Wears a hat.
![Does the existential threat from Al raised by Jacob Coxon when he resigned from Anthropic reflect a real concern that you observe on a daily basis among young researchers?
Not among researchers, but the young people who work at these companies operate in a world [Silicon Valley, Berkeley, etc.] where these kinds of discussions are commonplace. Many of them aren't really engineers; they come from the humanities, philosophy, or other disciplines. They're 25 years old, they're naive, they don't do engineering work, they've never worked at large companies where real products are developed for real people, with discipline. And they get together, a bit like in Parisian cafés in the 1920s, to talk about these grand science-fiction ideas. When these young people resign, they know they're going to attract attention. It allows them to feel virtuous and to be seen as very important figures. They claim to be giving up money, but in reality, they already have their stock options [options allowing employees to subscribe for and purchase company shares, editor's note]. So all of this is a grand moralizing performance that doesn't serve the real objective it claims to pursue. There's a great deal of naiveté here, which goes hand in hand with a certain cynicism...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ucxkfs7z2vfvr65tcx3ezmpf/bafkreid3sljb7kndsd7kuhphtw63smwqopxn737wk6iqbclwn2odg6w6p4)
![“[The cast] goes on talk shows and spends 80% of the time explaining the rules of the world, and that’s not what the movie is about. We have to just let people see it. That’s the best tool we have, especially for something that’s this crazy.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ucxkfs7z2vfvr65tcx3ezmpf/bafkreih3evxliolzl5r2cifkexs3tl6ce3qkau3dlr32iwhal6ga4aw5ti)
