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I think good faith would request that the source used for these kinds of questions is not one of the VC firms at the root of these questions.

Doubly so when they use such innocuous and authoritative titling as "Our World in Data" which implies some collectivist, community-based outlook that this website is indeed not.

To wit, this page is produced in part by the Global Change Data Lab which is a team of economists, and YCombinator.

Ourworldindata basically just uses data from published research papers and makes interactive graphs that are easy to understand. They also cite their source in every graph and every article. Trying to paint them as disingenious is pretty baseless, you would have to take it up with the authors of the source data and not owid.

It's literally funded and published by the VCs backing so many of the AI companies here. Literally the fountain of money that produced Sam Altman.

I'm going to have to ask for a little more rigour than "they use data".

Data can be wielded in all manner of manipulative fashion to suit a preferred narrative. And when it's wielded by engineers defending large AI (or any) companies, they should at least acknowledge the fact that the data reporting is "coming from inside the house", so to speak.

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