people have written what I think are good responses to that piece; many of the comments, especially this one, and some posts.
There are responses by Quintin Pope and Ryan Greenblatt that addressed their points, where Ryan Greenblatt pointed out that the argument used in support of autonomous learning is only distinguishable from supervised learning if there are data limitations, and we can tell an analogous story about supervised learning having a fast takeoff without data limitations, and Quintin Pope has massive comments that I can’t really summarize, but one is a general purpose response to Zvi’s post, and the other is adding context to the debate between Quintin Pope and Jan Kulevit on culture:
There are responses by Quintin Pope and Ryan Greenblatt that addressed their points, where Ryan Greenblatt pointed out that the argument used in support of autonomous learning is only distinguishable from supervised learning if there are data limitations, and we can tell an analogous story about supervised learning having a fast takeoff without data limitations, and Quintin Pope has massive comments that I can’t really summarize, but one is a general purpose response to Zvi’s post, and the other is adding context to the debate between Quintin Pope and Jan Kulevit on culture:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hvz9qjWyv8cLX9JJR/evolution-provides-no-evidence-for-the-sharp-left-turn#hkqk6sFphuSHSHxE4
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Wr7N9ji36EvvvrqJK/response-to-quintin-pope-s-evolution-provides-no-evidence#PS84seDQqnxHnKy8i
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wCtegGaWxttfKZsfx/we-don-t-understand-what-happened-with-culture-enough#YaE9uD398AkKnWWjz