Comment by Nevermark
2 hours ago
I am completely calm and serious. This should be mundane, obvious by now.
I find it unfathomable that anyone doesn't recognize that the move from an evolutionary substrate, to engineered mass produced substrates, by beings capable of self-engineering, is the beginning of a new explosion of life.
The speed of engineered adaptation, from materials to architectures, vs. biological evolution is already something like a million times faster.
Fast enough to mean meaningful cognitive progress happening in months, not tens of thousands of years. Which entirely not-coincidentally is exactly what we are seeing.
Well, I think you have AI psychosis.
Five years from now you won't. Ten years from now, robotics will upset another capability/economic apple cart.
I am not expressing any opinion of what I think should happen. Just what is already happening.
Which you didn't offer a credible critique to. That might have been interesting.
You make a fair point, I did not elaborate.
My comment about AI psychosis was provoked by this comment in particular:
> AI isn't a tame long term transition - in scale it is bigger than any transition since the first individual cells.
It's such a wild hyperbole. You are casually claiming the stochastic text generator is a greater invention than fire, combustion engine, electricity, a transistor, computers, quantum mechanics... do you not see how unreasonable that is?
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