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"In Machines of Loving Grace, I suggest that a 10–20% sustained annual GDP growth rate may be possible.""

Absolutely comical. Do you realise how much that is in absolute terms? These guys are making up as they go along. Cant believe people buy this nonsense.


Why not? If they increase white color productivity by 25%, and that accounts for 50% of the economy, you'd get such a result.


I mean, once we're able to run and operate multinational corporations off-world, GDP becomes something very different indeed


> Cant believe people buy this nonsense.

I somewhat don't disagree, and yet. It feels like more people in the world buy into it than don't? To a large degree?


Most people using LLMs dont have this craft...... which begs the question. Should they be using LLMs in the first place? Nope. But given that its rammed down their throat by folks internally and externally, they will.


Yep.

Man can we just get this hype phase over with? Its very obvious to anyone who truly has "general intelligence" in understanding the nature of the economy and the present labour market and its job classes that LLMs are not going to cause job destruction nor immense leaps in productivity.

To put it another way - who cares if you can write more lines of code - if your taste for project selection lacks? Google has an expansive grave yard for a reason.


I'm not sure what the rhetorical gamble of "anyone with sense agrees with me" is called, but it's lazy. Maybe a no true Scotsman? I believe I have general intelligence and it's not at all obvious to me.

Putting your hopes on taste is cope. At best AI will just let you brute force 1000 projects to discover the delicious ones.


You’re trying to analytically argue away an emotion (depression), which means you’ve automatically lost.

Seriously, read the fucking room (and comment thread) before charging in with a holier-than-thou argumentative attitude.


I'm very confused. You're saying that being concerned about AI impact on society makes me depressed? Really not sure what the "read the room" portion means. Did my comment somehow trigger you?


Theres a lot of astroturfing on here too.

The reality is, LLMs to date have not significantly impacted the economy nor been the driver of extensive job destruction. They dont want to believe that and they dont want you to believe it either. So theyll keep saying "its coming, its coming" under the guise of fear mongering.



Agreed. I also believe the impact on producing software is also over-hyped and in the long term there will be a pull-back in the usage of the tools as the negative effects are figured out.

The unfortunate truth (for Amodei) is you cant automate true creativity and nor standardise taste. Try as they might.


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