Karpathy’s claim is second-order: it is about forecasts like this one, and it calls them naive. Amodei’s one-to-five-year displacement forecast is squarely the genre under attack, so the two men cannot both be reading the evidence correctly.
Karpathy says current predictions about AI’s imminent impact are naive. Alexander made a dated, falsifiable, public bet, declared it won in three months, and then retracted the win when a survey of other people disagreed with his own scoring. Naivety and a retracted scorecard are different failure modes, and the second is the one this archive can actually see.
Karpathy calls current predictions about AI’s imminent impact naive. Alexander is making exactly that kind of dated forecast, in public, with numbers attached. Putting probabilities on a guess is a partial answer to the charge of naivety and not a refutation of it.
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