Nikolay Levkovsky

[Nikolay Levkovsky @nik_levk]

@corsaren No way. Build a reversible computer and it'd be the most power-efficient [insert logic] engine ever, coming in at ~0 W. Architecture-wise, the only thing brains got going for them is the bottom-up assembly process that allows effective volumetric scaling.

[Nikolay Levkovsky @nik_levk]

The notion of an inevitable "AI singularity" is naive. It's plausible (likely, even) our reality doesn't have a loophole for every relevant physical constraint, no matter how clever you are.

[prinz @deredleritt3r]

We are, indeed, living through the singularity - and it has been fascinating to watch this realization slowly permeate through society:

- People in SF and a handful of those on X (including yours truly) generally believe in the imminent singularity. This is significantly more aggressive than my views regarding AI progress were ~12 months ago.

- CEOs/management of large enterprises, various public figures and the federal government have recently come to believe in rapid AI progress - I would call this the "Mythos Moment". These views are in line with my views from ~12 months ago (now hopelessly outdated).

- Tens (hundreds?) of millions are now using AI in the workplace extensively, and probably mostly view it as a "useful tool". 12 months ago, this was limited to coding, and even the number of coders who were using AI in their day-to-day work was significantly smaller.

- Yet the public at large still seems to live in the "hallucinating stochastic parrot" Gary Marcus land. No update in beliefs regarding AI capabilities between GPT-3.5 and now.

[Nikolay Levkovsky @nik_levk]

Has modern leftist thought considered that eating the rich (capitalist pigs) is haram?