It’s not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.

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  • He claims he was explaining what others believe not what he believes

    Others as in specifically his co-writer for AI2027 Daniel Kokotlajo, the actual ex-OpenAI researcher.

    I’m pretty annoyed at having this clip spammed to several different subreddits, with the most inflammatory possible title, out of context, where the context is me saying “I disagree that this is a likely timescale but I’m going to try to explain Daniel’s position” immediately before. The reason I feel able to explain Daniel’s position is that I argued with him about it for ~2 hours until I finally had to admit it wasn’t completely insane and I couldn’t find further holes in it.

    Pay no attention to this thing we just spent two hours exhaustively discussing that I totally wasn’t into, it’s not really relevant context.

    Also the title is inflammatory only in the context of already knowing him for a ridiculous AI doomer, otherwise it’s fine. Inflammatory would be calling the video economically illiterate bald person thinks evaluations force-buy car factories, China having biomedicine research is like Elon running SpaceX .













  • To get a bit meta for a minute, you don’t really need to.

    The first time a substantial contribution to a serious issue in an important FOSS project is made by an LLM with no conditionals, the pr people of the company that trained it are going to make absolutely sure everyone and their fairy godmother knows about it.

    Until then it’s probably ok to treat claims that chatbots can handle a significant bulk of non-boilerplate coding tasks in enterprise projects by themselves the same as claims of haunted houses; you don’t really need to debunk every separate witness testimony, it’s self evident that a world where there is an afterlife that also freely intertwines with daily reality would be notably and extensively different to the one we are currently living in.



  • Given the volatility of the space I don’t think it could have been doing stuff much better, doubt it’s getting out of alpha before the bubble bursts and stuff settles down a bit, if at all.

    Automatic pr generation sounds like something that would need a prompt and a ten-line script rather than langchain, but it also seems both questionable and unnecessary.

    If someone wants to know an LLM’s opinion on what the changes in a branch are meant to accomplish they should be encouraged to ask it themselves, no need to spam the repository.