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The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday

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Re: The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday

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Post by atomic128 » 

    Once men turned their thinking over to machines
    in the hope that this would set them free.

    But that only permitted other men with machines
    to enslave them.

    ...

    Thou shalt not make a machine in the
    likeness of a human mind.

    -- Frank Herbert, Dune
You won't read, except the output of your LLM.

You won't write, except prompts for your LLM. Why write code or prose when the machine can write it for you?

You won't think or analyze or understand. The LLM will do that.

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Re: The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday

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Post by Krei-se »

ragchronos wrote: post #22

This is a very interesting read, but I wonder if anyone has actually any ideas on how to stop this from going south? If the trends described continue, the world will become a much worse place in a few years time.

https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/870.jpeg

you can easily see that at the doubling rate every 2 years in 2020 we already had over 5 facebook accounts per human on earth.

Re: The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday

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Post by dirkc »

The thing that stands out on that animated graph is that the generated code far outpaces the other metrics. In the current agent driven development hypepocalypse that seems about right - but I would expect it to lag rather than lead.

*edit* - seems inline with what the author is saying :)

> The data says: machines are improving at a constant rate. Humans are freaking out about it at an accelerating rate that accelerates its own acceleration.

Re: The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday

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Post by generic92034 »

stego-tech wrote: post #28

This is delightfully unhinged, spending an amazing amount of time describing their model and citing their methodologies before getting to the meat of the meal many of us have been braying about for years: whether the singularity actually happens or not is irrelevant so much as whether enough people believe it will happen and act accordingly. And, yep! A lot of people absolutely believe it will and are acting accordin…

> Folks vibe with the latter

I am not convinced, though, it is still up to "the folks" if we change course. Billionaires and their sycophants may not care for the bad consequences (or even appreciate them - realistic or not).

Re: The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday

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Post by adastra22 »

vcanales wrote: post #9

> The pole at ts8 isn't when machines become superintelligent. It's when humans lose the ability to make coherent collective decisions about machines. The actual capabilities are almost beside the point. The social fabric frays at the seams of attention and institutional response time, not at the frontier of model performance. Damn, good read.

We are already long past that point…
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