AI sceptics have long dismissed short or medium timelines as speculation with no basis in data.
But recent revenue growth undercuts this argument. It's now the AI sceptics who have to show that current trends will break.
Lol, Ukrainian refugee in Sweden:
"All Swedish flats are the same - same IKEA furniture, same scented candles. It's like the flats in my childhood's Soviet Union.
Sweden is like the Soviet Union for rich people."
For most people in most contexts, it's more reasonable to trust the science than to question it, precisely because they neither have the time nor the ability to do science
Mao persecuted the pre-revolutionary elite savagely, with millions dying in famine.
Their children were stigmatised, and were less educated and had lower income than average.
But today their grandchildren have regained much of their lead.
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In 2000, UK top 10% incomes were no 3 in the world, but they’ve since gradually fallen and are now behind the rest of the Anglosphere and northwestern Europe; just above Spain and Italy.