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AI as Normal Technology is often contrasted with AI 2027. Many readers have asked if AI evaluations could help settle the debate. Unfortunately, this is not straightforward. That's because the debate is not about differences in AI capability, which evaluations typically measure. It is about two completely different causal models of the world. But most AI evaluations don't even *attempt* to measure differences in causal models. 🧵
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