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How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time

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Re: How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time

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Post by Krasnol »

FridayoLeary wrote: post #6

> And there it is: You can’t prove it’s not true. “The idea that AGI is coming and that it’s right around the corner and that it’s inevitable has licensed a great many departures from reality,” says the University of Edinburgh’s Vallor. “But we really don’t have any evidence for it.” That's the most important paragraph in the article. All of the self serving excessive exaggerations of Sam Altman and his ilk, predicti…

> I heard once, though i have no idea if it's true that he claims he carries a remote control around with him to nuke his data centres if they ever start trying to kill everyone.

That would be quite useless even if it exists since now that you said it, the AGISGIAIsomething will surely know about it and take appropriate measures!

Re: How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time

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Post by fabian2k »

Krasnol wrote: post #9

> Ilya Sutskever, cofounder and former chief scientist at OpenAI, is said to have led chants of “Feel the AGI!” at team meetings. There is...chanting in team meetings in the US? Has this been going for long now or is this some new trend picked up in Asia or something like that?

I don't think that is new. Back when Walmart tried to expand to Germany it was reported that they had employees do some Walmart chant. As you can guess this didn't go over well with German employees.

Re: How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time

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Post by aomix »

fabian2k wrote: post #12
Krasnol wrote: post #9

> Ilya Sutskever, cofounder and former chief scientist at OpenAI, is said to have led chants of “Feel the AGI!” at team meetings. There is...chanting in team meetings in the US? Has this been going for long now or is this some new trend picked up in Asia or something like that?

I don't think that is new. Back when Walmart tried to expand to Germany it was reported that they had employees do some Walmart chant. As you can guess this didn't go over well with German employees.

I was coming in with the Walmart example too. The onboarding meeting told us he overheard it at a Korean manufacturer and liked it.

Re: How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time

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Post by ceejayoz »

7734128 wrote: post #7
dang wrote: post #49

[stub for offtopicness]

Who tolerates a website which immediately pushes three overlapping pop-ups in free user's face? Why would anyone subject themselves to so much hatred? Have some standards.

Who raw-dogs the internet without an adblocker? Have some standards.

Re: How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time

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Post by FridayoLeary »

Krasnol wrote: post #11
FridayoLeary wrote: post #6

> And there it is: You can’t prove it’s not true. “The idea that AGI is coming and that it’s right around the corner and that it’s inevitable has licensed a great many departures from reality,” says the University of Edinburgh’s Vallor. “But we really don’t have any evidence for it.” That's the most important paragraph in the article. All of the self serving excessive exaggerations of Sam Altman and his ilk, predicti…

> I heard once, though i have no idea if it's true that he claims he carries a remote control around with him to nuke his data centres if they ever start trying to kill everyone. That would be quite useless even if it exists since now that you said it, the AGISGIAIsomething will surely know about it and take appropriate measures!

Oh no! Someone better phone up Sam Altman and warn him of my terrible blunder. I would hate to be the one responsible for the destruction of the entire universe.

Re: How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time

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Post by boothby »

cocomutator wrote: post #8
dang wrote: post #49

[stub for offtopicness]

today is the day i stopped reading opinion pieces from the technologyreview. not for presenting an opinion i don’t agree with, but for mistaking word soup for an argument.

There are two competing figures in motion: human intelligence and computer intelligence. Either can win by sufficient reduction of the other.

Re: How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time

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Post by uvaursi »

Krasnol wrote: post #9

> Ilya Sutskever, cofounder and former chief scientist at OpenAI, is said to have led chants of “Feel the AGI!” at team meetings. There is...chanting in team meetings in the US? Has this been going for long now or is this some new trend picked up in Asia or something like that?

FEEL THE AGI.

This is a meme that will keep on giving.

Re: How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time

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Post by mort96 »

ceejayoz wrote: post #14
7734128 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who tolerates a website which immediately pushes three overlapping pop-ups in free user's face? Why would anyone subject themselves to so much hatred? Have some standards.

Who raw-dogs the internet without an adblocker? Have some standards.

I use uBlock Origin (the full fat version in Firefox, not the lite version). It doesn't help, because the pop-ups aren't ads. There's one asking me if I wanna be spied on, one asking me to subscribe or sign in, and one huge one telling me that there's currently a discount on subscriptions.

Re: How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time

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Post by erikerikson »

ceejayoz wrote: post #14
7734128 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who tolerates a website which immediately pushes three overlapping pop-ups in free user's face? Why would anyone subject themselves to so much hatred? Have some standards.

Who raw-dogs the internet without an adblocker? Have some standards.

Rumor has it that some people saw the "ads pay for it all" business model and accepted the deal because they wanted the Internet to be sustainable.
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