George Hotz

Hotz's essay dismisses the idea that a smart-enough AI beats physical reality, then mocks a rival AI-safety plan for illustrating its case with a render of an ocean datacenter. His proof today's AI is broken: a screenshot where ChatGPT tells him to call 911 instead of helping him hide a body.

HN's read split: replies mocked the murder test as a bad look even from people who share his conclusion, while others ran his line about tokens never taking over the world into a counterexample, dictators who conquered nations with nothing but words.

Hotz contrasts Anthropic's policy-and-danger output with rivals' plain engineering posts, and reads recursive-self-improvement warnings as marketing copy. The doom, he claims, values the industry on hypothetical future capability, not today's.

The thread's best objection turns his evidence on him: if institutional investors think mass unemployment is nonsense and invest accordingly, where is the doom-to-valuation link?

Another notes the export-control fight makes danger talk expensive, not profitable; one calls the post projection.