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Comment by mbgerring

18 hours ago

AGI is a cult and its Jonestown moment is inevitable

I am now imagining GPT-7 convincing a bunch of OpenAI executives to go ahead with a destructive "mind upload" process involving a high-resolution X-ray and a neurotoxic tracer agent that happens to look like Flavor-Aid.

  • On the off chance that OpenAI executives are reading this. I'll totally believe AGI is here if they do this.

So you dont use agentic coding?

  • Yes, I do use the recursive autocomplete trained on Stack Overflow, what does this have to do with “training machines to love”?

    Do I fully endorse everything the people holding guns to my head are forcing me to do to stay alive? Definitely not, but I’ve decided that for now, living to fight another day remains worth it

  • As in, don't be ungrateful to our lord, because we're not a cult?

    • Well, translate it then, because that's the best I could do. How is the question whether someone uses agentic coding relevant in this context? To me it's like asking "so, do never drink Kool-Aid and never attend meetings?" with an air of having caught someone out, and to me the obvious reply would be "sure do, but it's not poisoned Kool-Aid and they're not cult meetings, so why do you ask?"