Rob Wiblin
@robertwiblin
Host of the 80,000 Hours Podcast. Exploring the inviolate sphere of ideas one interview at a time: http://80000hours.org/podcast/
A new legal letter aimed at OpenAI lays out in stark terms the money and power grab OpenAI is trying to trick its board members into accepting — what one analyst calls "the theft of the millennium." The simple facts of the case are both devastating and darkly hilarious. I'll…
Got a phishing email supposedly from MetaAI, taking advantage of people having heard about their AI hiring frenzy I guess. Stay safe out there!
Significant tension between two common views: 1. AI will cause entry-level positions to dry up as AI can fully replicate entry-level work. 2. AI lifts productivity of low-skill workers most, by demonstrating what the best staff do. If I had to guess the 2nd is dominant today.
In general when I've briefly watched people working on their computer screens I've learned a lot about: • What software and apps they use • What hotkeys they use • What odd settings or things buried in menus they find useful • How often they change window, flick between…
Let's say all the frontier AI companies bar one decided to voluntarily and significantly slow down the rate at which they push forward the frontier of AI capabilities. In response do you think that one remaining company would most likely:
There’s a good movie about the phenomenon of inventing something you think is super destructive and feeling really bad about it and your spiraling self-loathing not accomplishing anything
At times, AI existential dread is overwhelming
.@Replit goes rogue during a code freeze and shutdown and deletes our entire database
To be clear, this doesn’t necessarily mean AI is not taking any coding jobs, but at the very least it may be creating as many new openings in tech as it is erasing old ones.
But, plot twist: The much-discussed contraction in entry-level tech hiring appears to have *reversed* in recent months. In fact, relative to the pre-generative AI era, recent grads have secured coding jobs at the same rate as they’ve found any job, if not slightly higher.
Absolutely phenomenal exchange from @RepScottPerry at a recent US House hearing about AI – demonstrates way more understanding of the issue than is typical: Rep Perry: “I do want to make everybody aware of some things that I am aware of. I’m going to refer directly to an AI…
When I try to sound smart in "how fast will AI change things" conversations