Imagine telling other people to take seriously a work of absolutely ludicrous fanfiction, written by a man who used Harry Potter fanfiction to start a cult. Imagine getting PAID to do that, enough that you could live comfortably out of touch with the realities of normal people.
@TopherSpiro I take these scenarios seriously because of the insane jump in capabilities we've seen in the last year-plus, coupled with stuff like HuggingFace, coupled with experts inside and outside the labs believing we're at an inflection point and improvement is likely to accelerate
@jessesingal@TopherSpiro Also, as a professional journalist, you should AT LEAST not use "coupled" to describe that combination of more than two items. Christ.
@jessesingal@TopherSpiro It is grotesque that you make money for relentlessly advertising the infinite breadth or your gullibility, incompetence, and overconfidence in your ability to comprehend things toi don't even begin to understand while people who actually work for a living can't pay our bills
@jessesingal@TopherSpiro Of course you believe in the fevered fantasies of the Harry Potter fanfiction cult guy. Of course it doesn't bother you that there is not a shred of evidence supporting this bad sci-fi garbage.
@TopherSpiro@jessesingal The same way it will become "much smarter than humans in every way" - magic ๐ช, Not even the bullshit magic of average grifters who at least invent "rituals". No, this is magic that they expect the computer to invent for itself purely on the basis of their own imaginations.
People should not do any such thing. No good thing comes from participating in a mass delusion. Pluse believing in magic makes you look really stupid. Jesse has build up a high tolerance for this over time, but the average person could not withstand the inevitable humiliation.
@icefire99@SweatieAngle (That guy is a known hack and race scientist whose "work" is routinely ripped to shreds in the scientific community -similar to what I'm doing to you now. You'll also note that the meta-analysis on knowledge is from Spain, a country with distinct social differences.
@jamesdouma Even half a second spent worrying about this absolutely delusional outcome is half a second that could have been spent on something infinitely more valuable. Like picking your nose or eating one jelly bean.