Broke: scared of cheaper Chinese competition

Woke: scared of runaway AGI

And who do we have here conducting the interview: Stuart Ritchie, anti-trans activist & one of the more ‘deniable’ eugenics types of the late 2010s. What an incredibly tight ecosystem our good friends inhabit indeed lol.

Of course The Economist (inherently derogatory) would criti-hype AI.

A magazine whose editorial line is confident cluelessness.

Many are contrasting the bsky response to harassment of trans users to the harassment of AI developers and users.

Many are contrasting the demand for gay marriage with the demand for human-animal marriage.

Same shit, but the lack of thinking your argument through yourself does fit with being a chatbot-enthusiast.

Have been using Tutanota for years. They took an anti-AI stance pretty early on as well.

Seems like he’s very heavily professionally invested in the symbolic paradigm and given machine learning completely dominates AI at the moment he’s taking the piss at them whenever he can. Given the fundamental limitations of ML he’s probably right that any sincere attempt to improve on them requires a more symbolic approach, but talking specifically about AGI is getting into woo territory.

Was he promoting LLMs earlier on?