RemindMe! 5 years

It's not so much that it's surprising as it is the implications of such a massive company pouring its money into the project is either frightening or exciting depending on your point of view

RemindMe! Feb 25, 2025

Take your own advice

Given human experience and consciousness arises in 86 billion neurons of our biological brains, there's no reason to think it won't arise in machine brains ultimately. That Wolfram believes in essentialist fluff is disappointing but not surprising. People will keep pretending humans are impossibly unique until they aren't. It's hubris and a poverty of imagination.

But if you have to reason out the correct answer, and do that over and over again, it doesn't matter if there are 4 options or 1000. Think about it. The bar exam and other post graduate tests have multiple choice. You think anyone could pass those? Why do they take years of study?

Gesundheit

"God" is just a lazy word for things not understood. God of the gaps.

The problem with AGI is, due to its neural network weights, it'll be obsessed with big, hairy, sweaty donkey nuts

Doesn't sound very interesting. Just a recommendation engine, which have been around for a while

I'll be in my bunk

There's also nothing stopping a smaller company from upsetting the status quo and knocking down older, arrogant rivals

People are dumb. Like really dumb.

r/collapsesupport is pretty close