Henry Farrel and Dan Wang for the FT: Does Silicon Valley dream of Philip K Dick? Oh yes it does, and now my impression got some confirmation bias from a professor at Johns Hopkins and … Dan Wang? This Dan Wang? My impression of him has declined even in the months after reading Breakneck — more on that some other time — but can’t argue with him here.
Janan Ganesh for the FT: The exciting boring decade. On one hand yes, things are not as bad as we think. On the other, our physical senses are more calibrated to the rate of change than change itself so why not our internal senses too?
Dan Kagan Kans for New York magazine: He Was Right About AI. What About the Fate of Mankind? What the article says one Hans Moravec was right about back in 1988 was “the arrival on earth of human-level artificial intelligence in 40 years.” So I would clarify the headline to read that he may be right about AI in a couple of years, but LLMs are still closer to chess-playing algorithms than humans.