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Patience too cheap to meter

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, famously said that his goal was to make intelligence “too cheap to meter”. Right now, buoyed by venture capital, we’re living in that…

Dimity said she had been having “regular (intensely chaotic and cathartic) chats” with a version of therapy, ChatGPT, in order to “offload everything I don’t have time, money, or sometimes sanity to process elsewhere”. You could go a long way by just writing “breathe, be kind to yourself, don’t react in anger” and similar platitudes on a sheet of paper and reading it periodically. For instance, 4o’s recent sycophancy problem was certainly made worse by the fact that the model was patient enough to validate the user indefinitely.

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