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Your post inspires me to recall, at once, the enigmatic quote from Robert Oppenheimer in response to the ethical and social frailties of pursuing atomic fission during the time of World War II:

"When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success."

Even while we were applying the fruits of the technically sweet adaptive artificial intelligence advances at George Washington University to a failing power supply system on the Hubble telescope, we were all acutely aware of the possibilities for creating an adaptive and seemingly sentient 'being' of limitless scale which could be faced with the decision for taking a road to benevolence or a road to malevolence with little, or no, regard for technical sweetness or antecedent arguments.

My greatest personal concern at the moment in this AI (AAI/Generative) world is the increase in the ethical and social frailty of our global society during this informational world war.

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this is one of the more generative thoughts in your entire output so far (and the output of these LLMs is a kind of “Musak” of thinking -- simplified, toned-down, no sharp edges or rough surfaces ....)

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