I notice there's been a huge increase in cats acting like humans ever since the rise of AI.
Could it be that data is leaking from the data centers and entering their drinking water, causing them to act more like humans?
Right, but suppose we want a robot to pass the Wozniak coffee test, it'd probably help to have a humanoid form to manipulate the physical environment. There's no reason to think the humanoid form is universally optimal, but if we want to use robots to replace normal consumer tasks like cooking, operating tools and machines, then a humanoid form is a good first approach
@tenobrus@thetreygoff@JackRNewhouse Super interesting, have you ever written about what caused you to update in that direction? If not, could you briefly explain? Would be nice to have some optimism
Two types of prodigies. First kind do good but unexceptional work at a young age. This is in line with what you describe. The second kind are genuinely out of distribution geniuses. If a smart, competent adult could do what the prodigy is doing and the only alpha is the prodigy being young, ngmi
@thevirdas A lot of people have been talking about AI extinction risk for a very long time. People are just starting to take notice but many people have had consistent views on this since long before these companies were even founded
@AnaHawrylu97708 It's incredibly unsubtle to the point where you'd roll your eyes at it and say they've jumped the shark. But then you see how people with agendas in the real world behave and you realise they probably didn't go far enough