Currently pursuing a PhD at the "Mathematics for Our Future Climate" CDT at Reading University.
Previously MSc in applied mathematics/theoretical ML.
Not really active here - racism, Rationality and weirdness in the movement are so bad they made me give up on it.
Not trying to answer on the author's behalf, but it seems relatively clear to me that differential development is possible here: so far most advancements in science seem to have come from biological applications like AlphaFold that are distinct from the LLMs that have created most problems both in the eyes of "doomers" and in the eyes of people warning about current non-extinction dangers. Therefore the development of beneficial tools can in theory be accelerated while the development of LLMs is slowed down.
Small note: I don't know if it's my own English at fault, but I interpreted "7x below the WHO threshold" as meaning "7 times worse than the threshold" and only understood the actual meaning as I looked at the actual numbers later. Might be worth wording it differently.
The only parts I'd let AI write are those where I'm unsure if my phrasing is really natural in English and I ask for a better one.
If I'm not the one writing the post, I don't see why anyone should bother reading it.