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On the other hand, your book gains value by being published in 2021, i.e. before ChatGPT. Is there already a nice term for "this was published before the slop flood gates opened"? There should be.

(I was recently looking for a cookbook, and intentionally avoided books published in the last few years because of this. I figured that the genre is a too easy target for AI slop. But that not even Springer is safe anymore is indeed very disappointing.)

There aren't really many other options besides Springer and self-publishing for a book like that, right? I've gotten some field-specific article compilations from CRC Press, but I guess that's just an imprint of Routledge.

At least he is using LLMs to blast away what is left of his critical thinking skills. If the effect is real he will be a vegetable in a week.

@swlabr

Are they all truly “Dem pundits”? Or just assumed to be/claim to be?

Your idea is better. This perfectly captures the mood.

The only throwback thing I insist on is window entry. For historical reasons.

practical downside: too easily seen as a mockumentary

who is this guy anyway, is he in openai/similar inner circle or is that just some random rationalist fanboy?

His grounds for notability are that he's a dev who back in the day made a useful thing that went on to become incredibly widely used. Like if he'd named redis salvatoredis instead he might have been a household name among swengs.

Also burning only a billion more would be a steal given some of the numbers thrown around.

Yeah, find odd how people dont seem to get that this llm stuff makes AGI less likely, not more. We put all the money, comute, and data in it, this branch does not lead to AGI.