He doesn't need to have it, because his comment is carefully crafted to not say anything other than signaling anti-AI sentiment.

Of course AI "almost certainly" solves fewer problems than the people that think AI can solve all the problems think. That doesn't mean anything. Also notice how he puts together "AI didn't help" and "AI caused harm", and then says that's the most common experience.

Really? I hear almost daily that AI is on the precipice of being a self-improving demigod that will either kill us all or usher in utopia. If it's really so obvious that AI won't fulfill the most maximalist claims maybe those folks should stop making them.

Or, alternatively, the comment you're responding to is NOT empty — there is value in reminding all the AImaxxers on this board that GPT v10 may not have one-shotted the end of human suffering by early 2027.