> What data does "they're lying" fit better than "they're earnest?"

Claim: GPT-4 is a PhD level expert.

Claim: LLMs "reason"

Claim: LLMs "understand"

Claim: AI will automate jobs away

None of these are "earnest" claims for a company to make (whatever that means). They're vacuous bullshit, and false. It's a bunch of wordsmithing papering over results that are either hidden from view or just unimpressive. Even if the person saying that shit believes it, that's not super relevant--if a company is advertising these capabilities then... just... doesn't do it, that's lying. Corporate statements aren't unilaterally determined by fallible individuals, they're reviewed, crafted products. They can be fairly critiqued as such.

> Brilliant framework: Anyone making claims about the future is not just speculating, not just wrong, but they are lying.

Not just anyone, companies in particular. If a company tells you it's building something to replace jobs, and then it doesn't do it, that company lied.

Lol, I can name 3 specific jobs within my own company (of <10 people) that AI prevents me from having to hire for. They've been automated away.

My company itself (possible only with AI) does the work of at least several dozen people across my hundred customers or so. Those jobs are now automated away.

Does that mean you're lying, or just overly confident (and wrong) in your speculations?

FWIW, I wouldn't put Sam Altman in the category of "earnest." I'm not sure if you just aren't aware that Anthropic and OpenAI are different companies, or if you're arguing dishonestly by trying to put sama quotes in here? But weird move in either case!

I'm sorry, but I do mentally bucket all "AI companies" together as sort of a single clump of filth. Kind of like "web3 companies". I don't make any effort to differentiate between them, because there really isn't much to actually differentiate them. They have different logos, different people, different collections of model weights, but they're all spouting more or less the same utter nonsense. And they're basically all completely fungible. Who cares whether the model is GPT or GLM or whatever? It doesn't really matter. Who cares whether the harness is OpenCode or Claude or whatever the google thing is? It really doesn't matter.

I'm glad you're seeing some success with this. I don't pretend to get it, maybe I'm too old and worn out.

In most ways it doesn't matter, but if you're accusing someone of lying and then your evidence of that is something that someone else said, then that's lazy (at best).

I'm not sure there's anything "to get." But given your level of curiosity it's not surprising.

Web3 was absolute horseshit (and always was), so if you're blending AI with that based on the similarly grandiose claims and the extremely annoying boosterism, I think you should try hitting reset and engaging with LLMs from a cleaner slate.

Not sure I’ve seen someone so openly hostile on HN in a while. Read the guidelines, and please share your thoughts in better faith.

Lol thanks. Achievement unlocked!

EDIT: And, if it wasn't abundantly clear, fuck you and the goddamn fucking horse you rode in on, you horrible sack of shit. In the best faith, of course. Die in a Fucking Fire.