Why the argument about how capable AI is turns out to be a reading we already have, not a gap we have yet to close. Ask ten people when machine intelligence becomes general and you get a spread of dates. Ask a hundred, and the natural expectation is that the spread tightens — the way … Continue reading The Disagreement Is the Measurement
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Who Owns the No
Every judge of your work can be escaped or fooled except one. The advice was go collect your nos. Send so many asks that rejection stops costing anything, and the yeses fall out of the pile. It works, where the asks are cheap. But it smuggles an assumption past you: that a no is a … Continue reading Who Owns the No
