This 2024 article from the Guardian is a rare exception. www.imperial.ac.uk/news/188291/... "There are also concerns the technology could be exploited in future for commercial gain (for example, if it is developed to control agricultural pests), or even as a biological weapon"

He should read the AI Snake Oil book to get understanding of the limitations of deployment of any new technology

Can you just walk around this imaginary environment and kind of explore it?

Current chatbots don't even have a consistent worldview. They are trained to recreate training materials regardless of whether they were right or wrong. Do chatbots believe in horoscopes? Depending how you ask them.

Is the chatbot just re-creating human behavior it was trained on?

That is a good post, correctly pointing out that DeepSeek isn't a breakthrough the public seems to believe. And it's pricing is similar to that of Google flash models

Those who praise great opportunities of crypto rarely mention that it doesn't produce any wealth. All gains require others to lose.

I understand that for some people the idea of eliminating a whole species is terrifying but this should be a matter of public debate. I only heard about it in a podcast interview with the inventor of this method: prof George Esvelt (80000hours.org/podcast/epis...).

Bill Gates is planning to use it ( www.facebook.com/watch/?v=384...
, www.technologyreview.com/2016/09/06/2...) but this could have been done a few years ago and hundred thousand of lives could have been saved.