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Noah Smith: We Can Build Again

The Case Against Doomers of All Kinds
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Jul 17, 2023
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Noah Smith is an economist, former Bloomberg columnist and the writer of the Noahpinion newsletter.

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“This is the sort of thing you lifeforms enjoy, is it?” — Marvin the Paranoid Android Five years ago, if you told me that in 2023 I would be writing a post arguing that chatbots are not likely to wipe out humanity, I would have said “…Yeah, sounds about right.” Not because I knew anything about progress in large language models five years ago, but becaus…
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For a while now, the media has been debating the cause of a wave of teenage unhappiness in the U.S. The other day, the Washington Post writer Taylor Lorenz posted a series of tweets in which she argued the main reason teens are unhappy is simply that they realize the world around them is a “hellscape…
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/opinion/democrats-liberalism.html

https://technomancers.ai/japan-goes-all-in-copyright-doesnt-apply-to-ai-training/

https://www.amazon.ca/Concrete-Economics-Hamilton-Approach-Economic/dp/1422189813

https://eig.org/new-start-ups-break-record-in-2021-unpacking-the-numbers/

https://twitter.com/BrandonLBradfor

https://twitter.com/wil_da_beast630

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