Comment on Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checks

• Iconoclast@feddit.uk ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My argument is that we’ll incrementally keep improving our technology like we have done throughout human history. Assuming that general intelligence is not substrate dependent - meaning that what our brains are doing cannot be replicated in silicon - or that we destroy ourselves before we get there, then it’s just a matter of time before we create a system that’s as intelligent as we are: AGI.

  I already said that the timescale doesn’t matter here. It could take a hundred years or two thousand - doesn’t matter. We’re still moving toward it. It does not matter how slow you move. As long as you keep moving, you’ll eventually reach your destination.

  So, how I see it is that if we never end up creating AGI ever, it’s either because we destroyed ourselves before we got there or there’s something borderline supernatural about the human brain that makes it impossible to copy in silicon.

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  • XLE@piefed.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So do you think Dyson Spheres are inevitable too? Because things advance?

    You’re also shifting your goalposts tremendously. First you were implying that today’s AI would bring about AGI and now you’re saying that something, somewhere, might happen in some sci-fi future.

    I’m not sure if you’re actually worried about present day destruction, though, because you seemed to not like it when I brought up with the AGI true believers are doing to the vulnerable people that flock to them. Dario is on board with Trump’s fossil fuel, anti-green buildout too.

    If you believe so much in AI, but allegedly believe in the things you’ve talked about, perhaps it’s time to start criticizing the people you hold so dear.

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    • Iconoclast@feddit.uk ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So do you think Dyson Spheres are inevitable too?

      I’m less certain about that than I am about AGI - there may be other ways to produce that same amount of energy with less effort - but generally speaking, yeah, it seems highly probable to me.

      First you were implying that today’s AI would bring about AGI

      I’ve never made such a claim. I’ve been saying the exact same thing since around 2016 or so - long before LLMs were even a thing. It’s in no way obvious to me that LLMs are the path to AGI. They could be, but they don’t have to be. Either way, it doesn’t change my core argument.

      people you hold so dear

      C’moon now.

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      • XLE@piefed.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’ve been saying the exact same thing since around 2016 or so - long before LLMs were even a thing

        You really aren’t beating the Yudkowsky/LessWrong allegations with this one, you know.

        If you really think LLMs might mean nothing at all when it comes to actually achieving AGI, then maybe you should speak out against the environmental destruction they’re doing today with full endorsement from Anthropic and all the other corporate AI perverts.

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