“It seems too cheap and on-the-nose to point out that in their unwavering confidence and abstract relationship to the truth, large language models like GPT-4o project a kind of intelligence that most closely resembles the intelligence projected by the founders and investors and ambitious little freaks behind this generation of generative A.I. applications. But, you know, if Leopold Aschenbrenner impresses you I can see why “the talking computer that confidently bullshits in order to tell you what you want to hear” would also impress you”