Comment by LogicFailsMe
5 hours ago
Old and stupid hot take IMO. I want the time back I put into perusing this. Even the scale of LLMs is puny next to the scale of lying humans and the sheer impact one compulsively lying human can have given we love to be led by confidently wrong narcissists. I mean if that isn't obvious by now, I guess it never will be. The Vogon constructor fleet is way overdue in my book.
Meanwhile, engineers are achieving increasingly impressive and sophisticated things with coding agents, lies, warts, and all, but that doesn't play well with the narrative, so let's just pretend they aren't.
> The Vogon constructor fleet is way overdue in my book
Don't you see it? That's exactly what "AI" in this context is.
It's the bypass.
Where does it end, eh? Build a quantum "AI" that will end up just needing more data, more input. The end goal must starts looking like creating an entirely new universe, a complete clone of everything we have here so it can run all the necessary computations and we can... ? (You are what a quantum AI looks like as it bumbles through the infinitude of calculable parameters on its way to the ultimate answer)
You have absolutely no sense of perspective. We are all metabolically expensive meat machines whose only value is to propagate our genetic money shot. That we get to briefly entertain ourselves with consciousness and culture is IMO likely a mystery we will never solve without upgrading to running in a substrate more advanced than the MVP for sentience we currently pilot. Will we get there or will we wipe ourselves out like every contender that preceded us? Stay tuned...
But spoilers: DNA will be fine, meat machines maybe not so much...
For a bunch of people addicted to the works of Charlie Stross, Neil Stephenson, and Iain Banks, y'all are a bunch of luddites. Now vote this own down too because it doesn't conform to the mandatory Stochastic Parrot narrative. You have no free will and you must downvote after all. Why do you even read their works when any step towards their world is consistently greeted as the worst thing evah(tm)? What? You were expecting the United Federation of Planets without the eugenics and nuclear wars that led to it finally being a good idea? Bless your hearts.
And if you're worried about billionaires and tyrants, start taxing the former and stop electing the latter or STFU and let the free Markov process of history play itself out. Quoting fictional Ambassador Kosh: the avalanche has started, it's too late for the pebbles to vote.
You asked where it ends. Don't ask questions if you don't like answers. Quick reminder: shun and downvote the non-conforming opinion.