Not saying we shouldn't be careful with AGI. But the glib tone of "who cares if these companies die?" is where one needs to consider the consequences of AGI not happening or being delayed.
I thought we gave up on AGI and turned into making sex chatbots and simulated porn instead. Wasn't that what Sam was pushing for all along when he went all in on Sora and the erotic modes?
- you are assuming that an AGI will prevent more deaths than it would cause
- you are assuming that AGI is just around the corner and that scaling up language models is the path to get there
- you can make this argument about basically anything (nuclear power, tuberculosis medication, free healthcare). I’d say the burden of proof is on you to back up your extraordinary claim with extraordinary evidence.
> every delay to AGI results in deaths that AGI could have prevented
Sure, that's what AGI would be used for /s
In other news, we are not even close to AGI and even with the current experimental technology, frontier AI model companies are already fighting to help departments of war, which actually results in the most deaths. What makes you think AGI would be used for not leading to the same millions of deaths?
it's not about the companies, what a myopic viewpoint
every delay to AGI results in deaths that AGI could have prevented. we are talking millions of deaths for, say, just a year's delay.
What a ridiculous, reductive and dangerously accelerationist viewpoint.
It's not accelerationist, it's just fact.
Not saying we shouldn't be careful with AGI. But the glib tone of "who cares if these companies die?" is where one needs to consider the consequences of AGI not happening or being delayed.
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I thought we gave up on AGI and turned into making sex chatbots and simulated porn instead. Wasn't that what Sam was pushing for all along when he went all in on Sora and the erotic modes?
- you are assuming that an AGI will prevent more deaths than it would cause
- you are assuming that AGI is just around the corner and that scaling up language models is the path to get there
- you can make this argument about basically anything (nuclear power, tuberculosis medication, free healthcare). I’d say the burden of proof is on you to back up your extraordinary claim with extraordinary evidence.
> every delay to AGI results in deaths that AGI could have prevented
Uhm, that's not what Hollywood told me. I trust the screenwriters of "Terminator" more than I trust your anonymous forum comment.
> every delay to AGI results in deaths that AGI could have prevented
Sure, that's what AGI would be used for /s
In other news, we are not even close to AGI and even with the current experimental technology, frontier AI model companies are already fighting to help departments of war, which actually results in the most deaths. What makes you think AGI would be used for not leading to the same millions of deaths?