This position intuitively makes sense, but i don't agree.

I don't believe there is any reason to think any of us will be forced to adopt new technological advances beyond what we are comfortable with. Nobody is going into Amish communities and forcing them use cellphones.

It will probably be a bit scary to live next door to a god-like being that used to be a person, but we will have the autonomy to choose how much of that technology we want to integrate into our own lives, like we always have.

"However, many of these posts only have derision to offer rather than meaningful discussion."

I can have the opinion that climate change is really happening, even though i'm not a collage educated climate scientist. because I listened to collage educated climate scientists who say it is really happening.

I can have the opinion that the singularity is a real possibility even though i'm not a collage educated computer scantiest. Because i listened to collage educated computer scientists who say it's a real possibility.

The poster addressed both of your points.

Your points seem to be:

1:People you've meet in the ML field don't talk much about AGI.

2: You don't believe that LLMs will lead to an AGI or a singularity.

This poster is saying that neither of those things matter if the trend of exponential technological growth continues. Technological growth will progress in a rapid and nonintuitive fashion such that things that seem possible in the next few hundred years could occur in just the next few decades.

It's true that trend is not guaranteed to continue, but it seems unlikely (at least in my mind, and clearly in others) that even significant economic or societal shifts could alter it's course.