> we’d just have to do it

Highly economically disincentivized collective actions like “pulling the plug on AI” are among the most non-trivial of problems.

Using the word “just” here hand waves the crux.

Can you list some long textbooks on a single subject that are amazing?

Don’t forget the training data!

The phrasing “<statement> — no X, Y, Z, just <final simplified claim>” is cropping up a lot lately.

4o also ends many of its messages that way. It has to be related.

Dozens? Don't you mean, probably hundreds of trillions in the observable universe? Not that the number of planets really implies anything when we don't know the probability of life arising on one of them.