"We have many AI systems which can give us more. ... and Claude-Code, which have brought true advances in science, mathematics, and programming."
That contradiction kind of says he doesn't know what he's talking about.
That contradiction kind of says he doesn't know what he's talking about.
He is saying no generative AI is going to produce output that is both good and novel because it is always derivative. And then adds a generative AI (Claude Code) into his list of AI that have produced output that he feels is good and novel, invalidating what he is arguing.
"...no matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white."
Although personally I think code doesn’t actually need to be very novel so it’s actually the best example.
If you don’t agree with somebody, nothing else matters
It’s like people (you as an example) have taken the concept of experts and fucked it up so bad that simultaneously everybody thinks they’re an expert while also dismissing everybody else who claims they are an expert
It’s like the whole concept is entirely poisoned. Worse everyone is smugly pointing at the Wikipedia for “appeal to authority.”
Nothing new I suppose, Socrates after all was driven to suicide by the madness of his society accusing him of impiety.