To give you a sense about the ideological drift being caused by Twitter, here's Noah Smith talking in 2021 about the account that would become "i/o" and "avidseries." And then here's a screenshot from today, where Noah Smith has constant friendly interactions with him.

In 3 sessions, S&P 500 futures have plunged about 15%. Legit market crash

new rami malek thriller that's a power fantasy for 120lb nerds?
we're so back

the debate about scaling leading to AGI is philosophically interesting I guess, but in practical terms current models are reasonably useful and would be much more useful if they were significantly cheaper - all the ways to make them less dumb use compute, which is helped by scale