Comment by cs702
3 years ago
The OP is one of the funniest takes on the subject I've ever read -- funny because a lot of it rings true. Perhaps the funniest part is the section that compares true believers in the AI singularity to a cult, headlined by this photo of three prominent believers, which always makes me laugh out loud: https://static.pinboard.in/si/si.050.jpg . The linked PBF cartoons are pretty funny too, given the context: http://pbfcomics.com/115/ , http://pbfcomics.com/154/ .
Whether you agree or not with the OP's views, I highly recommend you read the whole thing and click on all the links!
> headlined by this photo of three prominent believers, which always makes me laugh out loud:
Reading your comment I was saying to myself: "The OP must surely be exaggerating". Lo and behold, as soon as I opened your link I started laughing out loud.
Ceglowski is an absolute genius of the English language (one might say, a super intelligence)
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