Ah, I see you have discovered blogs! They're a cool form of writing from like ~20 years ago which are still pretty great. Good thing they show up on this website, it'd be rather dull with only newspapers and journal articles doncha think?

That is what a blog post is. Someone documenting what they think about a topic.

It's not the case that every form of writing has to be an academic research paper. Sometimes people just think things, and say them – and they may be wrong, or they may be right. And they sometime have some ideas that might change how you think about an issue as a result.

he’s not a “random internet person”, he created Redis. Despite that, I don’t know how authoritative of a figure he is with respect to AI research. He’s definitely a prolific programmer though.

There are plenty of Nobel laureates who well, do rest on their laurels and dive deep into pseudoscience after that.

Accomplishment in one field does not make one an expert, nor even particularly worth listening to, in any other. Certainly it doesn't remove the burden of proof or necessity to make an actual argument based on more then simply insisting something is true.

Not sure why you're being downvoted. It's such a common phenomenon that it has its own name: Nobelitis.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease

That still qualifies as a random internet person, wrt the topic. And I think the emphasis is on no sources and I beliefs and I thinks, in any case :)

To be fair, you may find equally capable random people in this thread, doesn't mean they speak with any kind of authority.

Yeah, it’s called “Reflections”.

Indeed, and, what do you 'believe' or 'think' in response?

It's the personal blog of a famous internet person

> by a random internet person.

The creator of Redis.

Sure but quite a few claims in the article are about AI research. He does not have any qualifications there. If the focus was more on usefulness, that would be a different discussion and then his experience does add weight.

> smart, intelligent person gives opinion

> woah buddy this persons opinion isn’t worth anything more than a random homeless person off the street. they’re not an expert in this field

Is there a term for this kind of pedantry? Obviously we can put more weight behind the words a person says if they’ve proven themselves trustworthy in prior areas - and we should! We want all people to speak and let the best idea win. If we fallback to only expert opinions are allowed that’s asking to get exploited. And it’s also important to know if antirez feels comfortable spouting nonsense.

This is like a basic cornerstone of a functioning society. Though, I realize this “no man is innately better than another, evaluate on merit” is mostly a western concept which might be some of my confusion.

Evaluate on merit indeed and that is not what is happening. The parent I replied to used an authoritative argument that is not based on (relevant) merit.

Credentialism isn't a fix for the problem you've outlined. If anything, over-reliance on credentials bolsters and lends credence to crazy claims. The media hyper-fixates on it and amplifies it.

We've got Avi Loeb on mainstream podcasts and TV spouting baseless alien nonsense. He's a preeminent in his field, after all.

Focus on what you understand. If you don't understand, learn more.

Don't see how that gives him more credibility wrt AI.

His entirely unsupported statements about AGI are pretty useless, for instance.

So many people assume AGI is possible, yet no one has a concrete path to it or even a concrete definition of what it or what form it might take.