Someone claimed no country had ever pulled itself out of poverty except by capitalism

The funny thing is orthodox marxists wouldn't necessarily disagree: capitalism is a necessary historical step towards communism. Not sure how that justifies the continued existence of exploitation and billionaires!

Oh absolutely. It's frankly shocking how wrong he's been about so many things for so so long. He's also managed to pen the most astonishingly holocaust-denial-coded diatribe I've ever read from (ostensibly) a non-holocaust denier. I guess his overdeveloped genocide-denial muscle was twitching!

and, of course, Noam Chomsky

lmao the shade

Yeah! Exactly!

And of course on that theme from Melanie "Computer scientist" Mitchell

On the bad side: A.I.-induced psychosis! On the good side, some people will get a lot out of using chatbots as therapists.

These people have definitely offloaded the cognitive load to chatbots.

I like this one from "A.I. policy researcher" Helen Toner.

I believe the narrative around A.I.’s negative environmental impacts has gotten way out of hand. Yes, on aggregate the industry uses quite a bit of energy and water, but that’s true of any large industry. The relevant question is how it compares to other industries, and how it compares to how much value we’re getting out of it.

Yes girl, good job. Now maybe try connecting these two thoughts!

I was getting excited to read this but seeing the word "hyperstition" used three times in the abstract put a bit of a damper on things hahah

cool graph what's the x axis

What I find delightful about this is that I already wasn't impressed! Because, as the paper goes on to say

Moreover, although the UBE is a closed-book exam for humans, GPT-4’s huge training corpus largely distilled in its parameters means that it can effectively take the UBE “open-book”

And here I was thinking it not getting a perfect score on multiple-choice questions was already damning. But apparently it doesn't even get a particularly good score!

From Re-evaluating GPT-4’s bar exam performance (linked in the article):

First, although GPT-4’s UBE score nears the 90th percentile when examining approximate conversions from February administrations of the Illinois Bar Exam, these estimates are heavily skewed towards repeat test-takers who failed the July administration and score significantly lower than the general test-taking population.

Ohhh, that is sneaky!

I love the way these idiots keep incrementing the number on their ChatGPT fantasy as if it's a sufficient image of the future and it's going to get everyone on board. Complete failure of imagination, don't try to picture any actual use for it or anything, just make it... more.

Oh well done, you added noise to a line going up!