Re:OpenAI economist quits, alleging that they are verging in...
by brindlejim on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @04:57PM
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why is it news that a guy quits when his boss changes, and a company doesn't do enough to criticize itself? the internet is flooded with information about the risk that AI poses to jobs. cunningham now works at one of the places that likes to write stuff like that. arguably a much better fit!
Re:OpenAI economist quits, alleging that they are verging in...
by observationist on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @05:01PM
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Economists are a short hop up from astrology along the line of how much science things are.
The entire field is five nines of vibe, with an occasional legitimate universal mathematical insight.
If economology were practical and useful, economists would be rich from successfully modeling markets and economies and arbitraging asynchronous information advantages. Instead, the economists that get rich do so by prognosticating and pontificating.
This guy's pet theory probably wasn't viewed as compatible with anything OpenAI wanted to be doing.
If your theory or perspective runs against the commodification of human level AI, then you probably aren't going to be a great fit at any of the big AI labs.
Re:OpenAI economist quits, alleging that they are verging in...
by apercu on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @05:15PM
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"Economists are a short hop up from astrology along the line of how much science things are."
LLM advocates that say that this tech is magic and hours away from human intelligence are a short hop up from astrology along the line of how much science things are.
The entire field is five nines of vibe, with an occasional legitimate universal mathematical insight.
If economology were practical and useful, economists would be rich from successfully modeling markets and economies and arbitraging asynchronous information advantages. Instead, the economists that get rich do so by prognosticating and pontificating.
This guy's pet theory probably wasn't viewed as compatible with anything OpenAI wanted to be doing.
If your theory or perspective runs against the commodification of human level AI, then you probably aren't going to be a great fit at any of the big AI labs.
LLM advocates that say that this tech is magic and hours away from human intelligence are a short hop up from astrology along the line of how much science things are.