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Comment by konmok

8 hours ago

Eh. An intelligence with perfect knowledge of the entire universe, unlimited memory, and infinite processing speed, would have a tendency to go boom. But the real world has limits, and intelligence, even superintelligence, does not equate to godhood. Some tasks are still hard no matter how smart you are.

Plus, we have no real reason to think LLMs are anywhere close to AGI or ASI. So arguments like these are just distracting from the very real, very present danger that LLMs pose: information breakdown, societal collapse and environmental destruction. In other words, this is criti-hype.

The kind of person who thinks AI contributes to information breakdown rather than information diffusal has no theory of how information spreads. The other claims like societal collapse and environmental destruction are still FUD but slightly more possible