Disturbing to end the year knowing I've already read every single one of these tweets. The AI policy self-own was quite funny, I salute you guys for taking accountability for your predictions. Good stuff :D
Thanks for rounding these up! Lots of useful stuff to reflect on from the year.
I think this take reads as a different implication than I suspect you intended?:
> Hao responded promptly and corrected the error — but of course, the discourse didn’t stop there. Impressively, all sides of this debate were equally insufferable.
> Timnit Gebru, founder of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, picked a fight with Masley on X (and ultimately blocked him). She then took the roast to Bluesky, where AI ethics-y folks gathered to dunk on “well, actually” EAs for correcting the narrative that data centers are supercharging a water crisis.
> To be clear, many of the Well Actually Guys were also extremely annoying: it’s sometimes hard to tell where good-faith error correction ends and “let’s belittle women of color” begins.
I found Andy to be nothing but patient and upstanding in the debate, and certainly don't think he was motivated by belittling women of color.
I understand that by 'all sides being equally insufferable,' you maybe mean 'various random people who happen to be weighing in, across the spectrum of POVs' were being insufferable.
But I think this phrasing more naturally reads as 'the main parties to the debate' being equally insufferable, which would suggest that Andy was somehow being insufferable.
The shifting timelines bit is lowkey the most revealing part. I've been following AI policy debates for a while now and the way everyone suddenly decided "long timelines" just means a decade instead of decades shows how much the goalposts hav emoved without anyone acknowledging it. The Zuckerberg "superintelligence" thing deserves more mockery tbh because calling Ray-Bans superintelligent is genuienly wild.
This piece really made me laugh, you always nail these AI takes so well.
Disturbing to end the year knowing I've already read every single one of these tweets. The AI policy self-own was quite funny, I salute you guys for taking accountability for your predictions. Good stuff :D
Thanks for rounding these up! Lots of useful stuff to reflect on from the year.
I think this take reads as a different implication than I suspect you intended?:
> Hao responded promptly and corrected the error — but of course, the discourse didn’t stop there. Impressively, all sides of this debate were equally insufferable.
> Timnit Gebru, founder of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, picked a fight with Masley on X (and ultimately blocked him). She then took the roast to Bluesky, where AI ethics-y folks gathered to dunk on “well, actually” EAs for correcting the narrative that data centers are supercharging a water crisis.
> To be clear, many of the Well Actually Guys were also extremely annoying: it’s sometimes hard to tell where good-faith error correction ends and “let’s belittle women of color” begins.
I found Andy to be nothing but patient and upstanding in the debate, and certainly don't think he was motivated by belittling women of color.
I understand that by 'all sides being equally insufferable,' you maybe mean 'various random people who happen to be weighing in, across the spectrum of POVs' were being insufferable.
But I think this phrasing more naturally reads as 'the main parties to the debate' being equally insufferable, which would suggest that Andy was somehow being insufferable.
Ah thanks for flagging! Yes, we did not mean Andy. Will tweak to make that clearer.
The shifting timelines bit is lowkey the most revealing part. I've been following AI policy debates for a while now and the way everyone suddenly decided "long timelines" just means a decade instead of decades shows how much the goalposts hav emoved without anyone acknowledging it. The Zuckerberg "superintelligence" thing deserves more mockery tbh because calling Ray-Bans superintelligent is genuienly wild.
so excited
Zuck and his superintelligence glasses definitely tops the chart; followed by this Harlan Stewart’s (MIRI) hilarious tweet on OpenAI closing in on solving alignment. https://x.com/humanharlan/status/1941661128582381685?s=46