I feel like in a lot of cases the context is also sometimes important to differentiate between a real-life idiot and someone who is "Just Asking Questions."
The trite disclaimer is one thing, but explaining how you came to the specific question you're asking helps me trust that it's worth giving you an actual explanation rather than the dismissal that some folks want so they can post it on wherever the new home is for "so much for the tolerant left" bullshit.
Also, the whole point of the foundation series (one of them) was that overconfidence in psychohistory is bad, actually. Like, foundation and empire opens with a pretty clear allegory for Bellisarius and Justinian, but the whole rest of the book is about "actually it turns out that there are circumstances outside of our model that can fuck shit up because we didn't predict that psychic powers would be a thing and now it's all fucked!"
For someone who supposedly read a lot of sci-fi I don't know that he actually read them.
Possibly fair. I'm pretty sure I've seen that exact screenshot used in other articles about Doom, but I'm not enough of a Doom nerd to be sure.
There's a decent writeup over at Pivot-to-AI that looks at the paper as a whole in more detail.
Given thaty wife interviewed with a "digital AI assistant" company for the position of, effectively, the digital AI assistant well before the current bubble really took off, I would not be at all surprised if they kept a few wage-earners on staff to handle more inconclusive checks.
Capability is such a vague word, and intelligence isn't all that much better defined.
I like to think of it as concentrating that draw of the void into someplace less irony-poisoned and openly destructive than many of the alternatives. This way I can avoid spreading the despair into the rest of my life.
Don't forget the part where Europe has had cemeteries so old that they had to be moved or got rediscovered and the solution was to create massive ossuaries that pack everyone's bones in real tight in cool non-human-body patterns.
Rotting for a half decade and then helping turn the walls of a church basement into a heavy metal album cover is kind of #deathgoals if I'm being honest.
Isn't the whole point of rubber duck debugging that the method works when talking to a literal rubber duck?
And proofreading is notably more complex and has a worse failure state than just writing your own summary.
Oh God, some days later he's doing it again
Edit after listening: Content warning for immediate onset transphobia on top of the standard right-wing conspiracy lunacy. Have to try and make it be mean to trans people before we can get to the real "weird nonsense" meat of the interview.
So I'm guessing we'll find a headline about exfiltrated data tomorrow morning, right?
"Our product doesn't work for any reasonable standard, but we're using it in production!"
It makes a certain amount of sense with the conspiracy theories that are at the heart of fascist understanding of politics, though. Goldbuggery treats inflation like it's a very simple question of monetary policy rather than a complex emergent part of an economic environment centered around constant growth. This means it's a perfect tool for (((Them))) to be using from their secret position of power to invert the obvious natural order and keep Us (and more importantly from a propaganda perspective, You) away from the luxury and power that We deserve. The fascist conspiracy theories also answer the obvious problem with the goldbug narrative: if it's so easy to fix inflation and would have no negative consequences, why don't the people we keep electing to fix it just... do that?