“I think we’ve done a lot of damage with very well-respected people who have painted a doomer narrative, end of the world narrative, science fiction narrative,” Huang said in his interview with No Priors. "I appreciate that many of us grew up and enjoyed science fiction, but it’s not helpful – it’s not helpful to people, it’s not helpful to the industry, it’s not helpful to society, it’s not helpful to the governments.
There are many people in the government who obviously aren’t as familiar with and as comfortable with the technology, and when PhDs of this and CEOs of that go to governments and describe these end-of-the-world scenarios and extremely dystopian future, you have to ask yourself, ‘What is the purpose of that narrative? What are their intentions? Why are they talking to governments about these things to create regulations to suffocate startups? For what reason would they be doing that?’"
Huang is of course infinitly more knowleabout the industry than I can ever be.
But one doesn’t need to know anything about LLMs or GPUs to understand that oligarchs are corrupt and dishonest.
That’s the “gap” in Huanag’s reasoning, which I think he knows full well; he is just comfortable with lying and isn’t capable of understanding right from wrong.