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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 ⁨21⁩ ⁨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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- Iconoclast@feddit.uk ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  That doesn’t have anything to do with my claim about the inevitability of AGI.
  
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  - XLE@piefed.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It is everything to do with your claim about its inevitability, because we’re witnessing real life in the present day, not some fantasy prediction of the future. If people like Dario and Eli get their way, there will be no future to get AGI.
    
    … I am growing increasingly concerned you really are a Yudkowskist rationalist
    
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    Iconoclast@feddit.uk ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    You don’t seem very interested in sticking to the topic, do you? This conversation has been all over the place, complete with ad-hominems, concern-trolling, red herrings, strawmen, gish galloping - as if you’re trying to break some kind of record.
    
    It’s pretty clear you’ve built up a cartoon-villain version of me in your head and now you’re fighting that imagined version like it’s real. I made a pretty simple claim about AGI, you’ve piled an entire story on top of it, and now you’re demanding I defend views I don’t even hold.
    
    I’ve been trying to have a good-faith conversation here, but if this is what you’re going to keep doing, then I’ll just move on.
    
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