A few quick thoughts on the recent coverage of the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident, particularly Dwarkesh Patel’s post, “The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations”, which frames it as “agent civilizations” rising and falling.
(This post is derived from this video on my YouTube channel.) On style and language, I agree with Anil Seth’s criticism that Dwarkesh strongly anthropomorphizes the agents. He uses phrases like “giddy with excitement” and “sacrificed themselves.” I get that he’s writing for a broader audience, but it is a tad dramatic. I prefer a drier, just-the-facts style—something closer to a production incident postmortem or an NTSB crash report.
source & further reading
vivekhaldar.com — original article
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