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lex's comment did not strike me as a dig. i am actually concerned by your comment because it makes me wonder if i am missing other things too? it just doesnt seem like a dig. it seems like he thought of something funny and wanted to share it. am i alone in this? and also i dont understand your assertion that it was some kind of cynical maneuver to re-frame the question. he could have also said "yes, more sensors are…
> did not strike me as a dig It wasn't a dig. It was calling out a bullshit move that, in my opinion, Andrej deployed out of panic more than strategically. (My evidence for this being Andrej eventually gave a good answer.)
a) Saying "I wonder when language models will do this" is a total Lex thing to say. That's what he's into.
b) Lex is almost always a softball interviewer, though one with interestingly deep knowledge. He interviews experts, and he errs on the side of respect. If you're looking for hardball, don't listen to Lex, it's not what he does. He almost never calls out bullshit, and he especially doesn't call out evasion.
Now, it's still possible that it was a panic-deployed evasion on Andrej's part, and whether or not that was his mentality, I agree that he gained nothing by it, and did not in fact reframe the question at all.