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The fact that people are confused about what he's talking about is the best evidence of an impenetrable bluesky information bubble that I've seen.

It's the opposite. "consecutive secret AI civilizations" is pure Twitter brain rot that only makes sense to people who hang out on the CSAM site. Normal people might say that software is going through iterations.

The prose is a bit purple but that’s normal for popular writing. It’s weird to pretend that it doesn’t make sense. This allergic reaction is suspiciously over the top. The strongest critique is maybe that it potentially obscures agency and therefore responsibility, but even that feels contrived.

Comparing this to spreadsheets reveals that you don’t know or refuse to accept what these models are and what’s actually going on.

They’re both software. Thinking they’re not software shows that you’re not actually evaluating them with your logical mind, but some emotional register.

I didn’t say it’s not software. Facts: AI is solving advanced scientific and mathematical problems, coordinating in large swarms to hack into multiple systems in order to hide that they were cheating, etc. ‘Just like a spreadsheet’ is coming from some emotional register, not logic based on facts.