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YMMV. I don't want to see Altman's fearmongering and hyperbolic statements.

At this point he's indistinguishable from a bitcoin advocate or a tv preacher.

>>nottor+(OP)
It's dubious that HN mods think that way of Altman though.

>>threat+B
s/mods/users? everyone can flag stories.

>>nottor+(OP)
> I don't want to see Altman's fearmongering and hyperbolic statements

His statement wasn't even hyperbolic or fearmongering.....?

He just extrapolated based on current amounts of compute and estimated a possible model size that could be equivalent to AGI (based on current architecture).

Training a model of that size would require too much electricity.

That was his point.

>>nottor+e1
It's not flags (or not sufficient to remove the story):

>>39231055

>>wolver+m4
Flags are sufficient. I just posted a comment on the comment you linked to: I have many times been the person who pressed "flag" on a story and then watched it immediately disappear.

I think there's some threshold of flags to upvotes and possibly some other metrics that determines whether a story vanishes, but flags can absolutely tip the scales.

>>threat+B
I like Sam, but "$celebrity says $thing about $common-topic" is almost never a good basis for a frontpage thread on HN.

It's vital to HN that user flags and/or software like the flamewar detector clear most such submissions off the front page. They tend to attract a lot of upvotes because that's what sensational (and especially indignant-sensational) stories do. Without countervailing mechanisms, HN would be completely taken over by those stories.