Well, it’s true that this post is completely ignorant of literally decades of discussion about this—from mailing list posts to blog posts to articles to books (including an entire chapter in R:AZ, and of course Superintelligence, etc.). The author seems to have made no effort at all, not only to review, but to even acknowledge the existence, of previous work on the subject.
But it’s also AI slop:
About the authors: Max Abecassis in collaboration with Claude Sonnet 4.
This, of course, also (at least partially) explains the first point.
(As the next paragraph tells us, the author seems to have something of a specialty in writing and posting this sort of “written in collaboration with [some LLM]” stuff.)
So what possible reason is there to engage with this stuff?
I had decided to not even read enough to figure out if it was AI written.
I don’t discount AI collaboration if the ideas and all final judgments are human; Jan Kulveit wrote a couple of great posts by having conversations with Claude and letting it do most of the final writing.
But yeah, without even a claim that the human was in charge of the ideas and claims, I’m going to not bother reading it even if it does acknowledge previous work.
Well, it’s true that this post is completely ignorant of literally decades of discussion about this—from mailing list posts to blog posts to articles to books (including an entire chapter in R:AZ, and of course Superintelligence, etc.). The author seems to have made no effort at all, not only to review, but to even acknowledge the existence, of previous work on the subject.
But it’s also AI slop:
This, of course, also (at least partially) explains the first point.
(As the next paragraph tells us, the author seems to have something of a specialty in writing and posting this sort of “written in collaboration with [some LLM]” stuff.)
So what possible reason is there to engage with this stuff?
I had decided to not even read enough to figure out if it was AI written.
I don’t discount AI collaboration if the ideas and all final judgments are human; Jan Kulveit wrote a couple of great posts by having conversations with Claude and letting it do most of the final writing.
But yeah, without even a claim that the human was in charge of the ideas and claims, I’m going to not bother reading it even if it does acknowledge previous work.