I listened off and on to much of the interview, while also playing solitaire (why I do that I do not know, but I do), but I paid close attention at two points during the talk about GPT-4, once following about 46:00 where Altman was talking about using it as a brainstorming partner and later at about 55:00 where Fridman mentioned collaboration and said: "I'm not sure where the magic is if it's in here [gestures to his head] or if it's in there [points toward the table] or if it's somewhere in between." I've been in a kind of magical collaborative zone with humble little ChatGPT and find that enormously interesting. Anyone else experience that kind of thing, with any of the engines? (BTW, I've got a post around the corner here [LW · GW].)

whether his charisma is more like +2SD or +5SD above the average American (concept origin: planecrash, likely doesn't actually follow a normal distribution in reality) [bolding mine]

The concept of measuring traits in standard deviation units did not originate in someone's roleplaying game session in 2022! Statistically literate people have been thinking in standardized units for more than a century. (If anyone has priority, it's Karl Pearson in 1894.)

If you happened to learn about it from someone's RPG session, that's fine. (People can learn things from all different sources, not just from credentialed "teachers" in officially accredited "courses.") But to the extent that you elsewhere predict changes in the trajectory of human civilization on the basis that [LW · GW] "fewer than 500 people on earth [are] currently prepared to think [...] at a level similar to us, who read stuff on the same level" as someone's RPG session, learning an example of how your estimate of the RPG session's originality was a reflection of your own ignorance should make you re-think your thesis.