I hadn’t seen this critique of superintelligence before. Interesting. It lands roughly where I did but via a different route (his term is much cleverer, “AI cosplay”). Ht
Deleted previous version of the tweet where I mistakenly attributed it to Bret Victor rather than Maciej Cegłowski. That makes much more sense. I was surprised to find myself agreeing with what I thought was Victor. In my head “idlewords” somehow sounds close to “worrydream”
My diagnosis was always a kind of anti-projection.
a) You think in a totalizing (INTJish) way and are impressed by its power
b) You see a machine that thinks in analogous ways and looks like it lacks your limits
c) You extrapolate its future as you minus biological limits
This is a digression but what is the value of using Myers/Brigs as a frame of reference when in terms of its claimed purpose it has been demonstrated to be hokum. It's a comfortable model of personality that is familiar to all of us but it is also imaginary.
Maybe to you. It has not been demonstrated to be hokum for me. I don’t evaluate models same as everybody and in particular I disregard statistical testing when it comes to personality models. In fact I think tests like Big 5 that claim statistical validity are the true hokum.
My apologies, I had not considered that possibility. I would not have addressed it so carelessly had I known. Personally I see the lack of bimodality in findings and the outside view of the structure of institutions and research and citations and that's the end of it.