Some of the AI hate is partially due to bias related to time

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Summary

A user reflects on how delay in trying AI led to amazement, contrasting with early adopters' complaints, attributing the hate to temporal bias, and linking to Will MacAskill's piece on AI progress.

i put off myself from using any chatbot or llm until late 2024 or early 2025 because i kinda wanted to let this tech mature somewhat, and when i used it first time, it felt so awesome that i kept using for hours! It felt magical. But some people who had experienced using gpt and other AI from the beginning were still complaining how the progress is so slow, and this might be due to bias of living with tech improvements and having higher and higher expectations... but when i look at how in just 4 years, AI has improved quite a lot compared to what it was doing in late 2022, it feels good to be alive during a revolutionary time! And seeing the non-hype types like Will MacAskill writing how far has AI come, it makes me both nervous and excited for the future - [https://www.forethought.org/research/preparing-for-the-intelligence-explosion](https://www.forethought.org/research/preparing-for-the-intelligence-explosion)
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