A prediction market assessed ~15% probability that an AI would write blog posts as good as Scott Alexander by 2027; this is surprising given that AIs have all his writing in training data, suggesting that even with his complete output available, matching his style and insight is hard—possibly due to planning/composition difficulty rather than sentence-level writing quality.
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Dwarkesh PatelEvidence Quote
“15% by 2027... Weirdly, they seem way better at getting superhuman at coding than they are at writing”
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AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo— Dwarkesh PatelCreated: 8/11/2026, 6:58:13 AM
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