Ben Allen

@jimstewartson @mattshumer_ I agree. ChatGPT is useful as a long-form fact checker in more ways than one. I had it analyze this article and it correctly pointed out a lot of doomsday saying and misattribution of sources - like the quote from Amodei - which is central to the article's arguments.

I asked ChatGPT to take a look at this utter bullshit. 😂 This reads like a familiar genre: apocalypse by anecdote, dressed up as a public service announcement, with a little subscription funnel hidden inside. Yes, AI is real. Yes, progress is fast. But the essay’s core move is illegitimate: it turns “my workflow got easier” into “half the economy collapses in 12–24 months.” That isn’t insight. It’s storytelling. The COVID analogy is a bait-and-switch COVID was a biological exponential with one gating factor: human contact. AI disruption is not that. It runs into procurement cycles, compliance, security, data rights, liability, integration, and institutional inertia. The author borrows the emotional memory of February 2020 (“you’re asleep, then the world snaps”) to smuggle in certainty about a future that depends on dozens of bottlenecks magically disappearing. “It happened to me first” is not evidence His proof is personal astonishment: I experienced a jump, so you’re next. That’s selection bias. He lives in an AI-native environment, doing greenfield software work—one of the easiest domains to accelerate. That’s not representative of law, medicine, finance, or government work where accountability and risk dominate. He confuses tasks with jobs A job isn’t “writing” or “analysis.” It’s those tasks plus context, responsibility, trust, and liability. Lawyers get paid for being accountable when the text is wrong. Doctors don’t just “read labs”; they absorb risk, uncertainty, and moral/legal consequence. AI can compress workflows and reduce headcount at the margins, especially junior roles—but “workflow compression” is not the same thing as mass job extinction on a clean countdown. The exponential extrapolation is doing all the work He cites METR’s measurements on longer autonomous task completion, then leaps to “days within a year, weeks within two, month-long projects within three.” That’s not a conclusion; it’s an extrapolation stacked on an extrapolation. Real curves hit friction: reliability, brittleness, evaluation gaming, security constraints, cost/latency, and organizational resistance. METR’s data is interesting—not a prophecy. “AI builds itself” is hype by ambiguity He frames OpenAI’s statement that a model helped with parts of its development as if it implies autonomous self-creation and an “intelligence explosion.” In practice, “helped debug/deploy/evaluate” can mean mundane productivity assistance inside a human-led pipeline. He inflates a true sentence into sci-fi to intensify urgency. The tell: fear as a conversion funnel The structure is textbook: trauma anchor (COVID) → authority claim (“I’m in the industry”) → helplessness frame (“a few hundred people control it”) → countdown → purchasable solution (“pay $20/month; follow me for the best model”). That’s not public education. That’s marketing. What’s true without the theater Frontier models are improving quickly. Longer-task performance is trending upward. Labor disruption—especially for entry-level white-collar work—is a real risk. But this essay replaces careful analysis with certainty, and turns anxiety into a product: subscribe, follow, believe. Bottom line: It’s tech eschatology—personal awe mistaken for evidence, exponential charts treated as destiny, and your fear used as leverage.

@jnkaufman @FutureCanes Exactly. No help from Bennett's "accidental" double minor taking the wind out of their sails either

@BenAllenSEO @FutureCanes All of this plus the blown 5 on 3 chance and rare gaffes from superstars. It just wasn’t their day, why all the excuses? Pretty sure everyone still knows they’re good at hockey 😅

Fully prepared for people to assume this is a cope, but I just don’t understand how you decide an Olympic Gold medal final with 3v3 hockey? I enjoy 3v3 in the right setting, but it’s like deciding a Stanley Cup Final Game 7 with 3v3. It just doesn’t make sense

@Saorsa1776 @FantasyZiip @PFTCommenter He is a master of this. The match before he "accidentally" crashed the net into Finland's goalie.

@BenAllenSEO @FantasyZiip @PFTCommenter Yeah, it doesn't look accidental.

Sam Bennett scumbag #scumbag

@RpsAgainstTrump Yeah the MAGA injection into the Olympic win started immediately. Bot accounts and people who have never seen a hockey game in their life posting the shot of Jack Hughes with MAGA BS under it like they were related.

Trump just shared a bizarre AI video of himself as a hockey player winning Olympic gold for Team USA. His numbers are sinking like a rock, so now he’s gotta insert himself into other people’s wins. Beyond pathetic

@DanGreenMN I noticed that a few hours after the win, the win and even Jack Hughes himself immediately started getting injected with politics - MAGA stuff. And I would bet that 99.9% of them don't watch hockey and didn't see the game.

As a Democrat, I’ve noticed a lack of Democrats expressing pride in America today. You don’t have to give up your political beliefs to be immensely proud to call America home. Loving your country does not equal supporting the current admin. Don’t let MAGA own patriotism. #USA

@GuntherEagleman Bruh the MAGA co-opting of this win started IMMEDIATELY. 99% of you don't even watch hockey or even saw the game. Stop forcing politics into this. Jack Hughes would tell you to fuck off.

One of these dudes lost teeth fighting to win for America. The other dude wants illegal aliens to vote in our elections and signs checks to fund the Taliban with taxpayer money.

@historyinmemes @grok is the man selling this art actually Banksy?

The time Banksy set up a stall in Central Park, sold original artworks for only $60, and this unfolded…

@robhughesyyc @eodyn7 @MrGoodlyCooks Please realize that we are not all the Twitter trolls that live to drive the MAGA BS. They are a minority and you'd never know it. I doubt any of them have even been across the border

@eodyn7 @MrGoodlyCooks Guy, your idiot president is all anyone needs

I don’t follow hockey, but this had me tearing up. They brought their teammate’s (who was killed by a drunk driver) kids out onto the ice with their dad’s jersey to celebrate the moment. 🥹

@alltime_josh @PFTCommenter You can tell the people who don't watch hockey bc they would know Sam Bennett does this on a regular basis

@PFTCommenter Lmao he was falling but alright 😂

@FantasyZiip @PFTCommenter If you think that was an accidental high stick, you have never seen Sam Bennett play before

@PFTCommenter Jack Hughes scumbag

@DealTheCards15 @TOSportsAdam Yeah dude. Jack Hughes definitely had a full set of Chiclets before Sam "whoopsie daisy" Bennett took the lumber to him. He also played right through it like a legend.

@BenAllenSEO @TOSportsAdam Wait he lost his teeth from that play? Are u sure they weren’t already gone?

The Olympics is the bigger stage but McDavid’s goal has way more aura and it’s not even close

@wartortlefanacc @CPWolfDad @FarhanLaljiTSN That is IIHF rules, always has been, the ones that players play in juniors for years before the NHL. Welcome to hockey.

@CPWolfDad @FarhanLaljiTSN do they play 3v3 to decide the stanley cup fat jason

So one team dominates, gets goalied & loses in a gimmick. 35 million devastated & hand-wringing for the next 4 years. The other team celebrates & in 24 hours its fans will forget about it for the next 4 years and get back to the sports that actually matter to them 🤷🏽‍♂️

@LeafsTok Are you guys forgetting that Sam fucking Bennett took two teeth from our guy that resulted in 4 mins of 5v5 team when you were hot? And he does this shit on a regular basis? He should be your guys' scapegoat, not us.

Matthew Tkachuk epitomizes most Americans: Dumb as dirt, blind pride in their country, arrogant and classless.

If my Canadian friends take away anything from this game, it's that Sam Bennett should not be anywhere near Olympic ice. Dude is a thug and cost you guys 4 mins of 5v5 when the momentum was on your side. He can't help himself.

@RachelKryshak Please tell me how Canada is at a disadvantage by putting McDavid, MacKinnon and Makar against 3 USA grinders. Even the bookies had Canada at huge odds if it went to 3v3 OT. Never seen more entitled, classless sore losers in my life.

Better team won the women’s game. Better team did not win today. Canada dominates all game. Those missed chances…and the US needs 3 on 3 to beat us.

@EmmanuelGod14 @NJDevils Oh are we counting medals? Then include the ones from all sports

Guy went full Jersey and brought home gold.

@bigheadhcky You're forgetting that he played through missing two teeth because of fucking Sam Bennett.

Jack Hughes at the 2026 Olympics: • 4 goals • 7 points • +8 • scored the Golden Goal for America Jack Hughes is an American legend.

@swappenny @SportsCenter Holy shit can just one of you be not entitled terrible sports? We gave you your dues at 4 Nations. Hey maybe we should go through the last Stanley Cups and adjust for "teams that didn't deserve to win" and just proclaim the Canadian teams the winners

@SportsCenter A medal you don’t deserve you were outplayed

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