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Some thoughts on tools for attention, and why we need a 🤡 button: https://t.co/T0tDN6OgAC

@eshear This also applies to prompts-as-magical-workings, and to Goodhart's Law, and to revenue models:https://t.co/Uk24x43JCk

Where to place your attention is without question a moral act. This is the understanding I am trying to help inject into the conversation around generative large language models. The more people energize worst-case outcomes the more we guarantee them. If we can help people get enough distance from their knee-jerk fear response to reflect on their own minds and, as the bumper sticker says, not believe everything they think, we can interrupt the fear stream with an executive reallocation mandate that brings us rapidly and coherently closer to worlds we actually want to live in. Silicon Valley is having a bad trip right now. It needs spiritual guidance if we are to live the promise of these tools.