Jack Clark: 'stochastic parrot' was a cognitive virus that blinded critics for years
doodlestein · x · 2026-09-21
OpenAI co-founder Jack Clark argued that "stochastic parrot" was a mimetically-fit cognitive virus spreading from 2021-2025 that temporarily blinded many gifted people to the nature of AI progress, burning crucial years in which they could have helped shape the response. Reply user doodlestein went further, mocking opponents of data centers as meme-susceptible and not worth engaging.
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