first draft, does this seem accurate / have i missed anything important
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some more sober and more informed commentary:
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I’ve been somewhat puzzled by the intensity of my own annoyance with AI hype. I think I’ve just discovered in this rant that, beneath irritation with badly-motivated, exaggerated claims, there’s deep sadness that the scientific opportunities are being lost. >
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i don't remember where i saw it but it stuck in my head from awhile ago, might've been this but who knows:
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A general rule for studying human behavior: Don’t anthropomorphize humans — Pascal Boyer, ‘How Minds Make Societies’
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looks pretty good
i think another useful angle (which is somewhat parallel to this) is about the people who didn’t predict GPT-3 in 2020 and have since failed to update about likelihood of AGI
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the signal/countersignal could go on for like 17363637373 more frames, tbh
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sadly the american chopper meme is not infinitely extensible (yet), galaxy brain is pretty special in this regard but it's not quite the right format for this imo
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