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“The companion paper contains a version of the (dis)proof in the level of detail expected by the mathematical community, and some of the mathematicians whose comments are included there have the expertise to vouch for its correctness. cdn.openai.com/pdf/74c2…” evidence ↗
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Ben Recht Suresh Venkatasubramanian Grace James Grimmelmann Benjamin Riley
8 experts discussed this · 47 posts
Colin: I hate that today’s most prominent AI skeptics keep forcing me to argue against them. I yearn to join them in the fight against the booster zealots, wherein there is still plenty of room for legiti…
Colin: The questions available to a skeptic today are kind of esoteric, like “how much should we as a society be willing to pay for theorems”
Ben Recht: The way forward is through the mushy middle. This technology is amazing. It works and breaks in surprising ways. The main boosters are lunatics. And the loudest critics are detached from reality. F…
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6 experts · 47 posts · 4d ago
Ben Recht Luis Villa VE, cybersocial occult investigator Anthony Moser tweety fish Pavel
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“I've been thinking for a minute that the bounds of what kinds of software you can make haven't really changed with LLMs because LLMs haven't invented a new computing architecture or interface parad…” evidence ↗
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tweety fish: like people are getting mad about this but serioulsly, an ethical stand against software developed with AI tools, right now, today, rules out essentially ALL SOFTWARE. I'm sorry! macos. bluesky. th…
tweety fish: anyhow I promise that you have never ever once used a piece of software developed by ME using AI tools, that I can say with 100% confidence.
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4 experts · 29 posts · 2d ago
Ben Recht tweety fish Isaiah Bishop B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)
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“Yes and i think we need to be more careful than looking at a benchmark.” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Research & technical analysis · 3
Isaiah Bishop: I dont see a reason to think AGI is impossible, but i do think a lot of people are getting over their skis in part because the anti-AI backlash was pretty dumb
Isaiah Bishop: Like my fundamental view is that AI as it exists, is just the kind of embedded capital we have for machines but for knowledge work. Nothing i have seen from them suggests a really extensive interna…
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3 experts · 7 posts · 11d ago
Ben Recht Christopher Mims Amy Hoy
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“would really like someone to calculate the payoff time of a $20,000 Mac running an open weights model compared to whatever they'd pay Anthropic or OpenAI for an equivalent amount of capability” evidence ↗
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Christopher Mims: The very first Mac ($2,495 in 1984 dollars) would cost the equivalent of $8,000 today. Cutting-edge prosumer tech is expensive again.
Amy Hoy: The very first Mac ($2,495 in 1984 dollars) would cost the equivalent of $8,000 today. Cutting-edge prosumer tech is expensive again.
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3 experts · 4 posts · 10d ago
Ben Recht Colin ae
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“They are also incredibly ideological, AI-friendly venues, and the people running the evaluations are obvious hacks. The report authors say absolutely insane AI-doom things in public and on blogs an…” evidence ↗
Ben Recht: They are also incredibly ideological, AI-friendly venues, and the people running the evaluations are obvious hacks. The report authors say absolutely insane AI-doom things in public and on blogs an…
Ben Recht: It's worse than nothing! They are seeing exactly what they want to see, promoting exactly what they want to promote, and letting the institution get off scot-free. It's very bad.
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