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I could explain it to you in an afternoon. But I’m not going to do it online, because then you have a thousand people call you “delusional”, because you simply
by breck 7y ago
I could explain it to you in an afternoon. But I’m not going to do it online, because then you have a thousand people call you “delusional”, because you simply are stating that exponential processes are going to continue. For some reason, many people who think themselves rational and scientific believe that things that have been going exponentially are suddenly going to go linear. To me, that is delusional.
- p1esk 7y agoExplain what?
- breck 7y agoHow to get to AGI.
- p1esk 7y agoIf you know how to get there why don’t you build it?
- breck 7y ago1) Indeed we are doing a few of the things on the checklist to build AGI. 2) Our focus is on helping improve medical and clinical science and cancer tooling first. 3) If we needed AGI to cure cancer, perhaps we'd be working directly on AGI. If anyone thinks this is the case, please let me know, as at the moment I don't think it is.
- p1esk 7y agoYou don’t think AGI would dramatically speed up cancer research (or any other research)?
- breck 7y agoOf course I do, but my back of the envelope guess is there's a 30% shot we can cure cancer in 15 years without AGI, and a 1% shot we can reach AGI in 15 years. I think AGI is cool but I'm much more concerned about helping people with cancer.
- piano 7y ago> because you simply are stating that exponential processes are going to continue. Exponential process continuing doesn't imply "we're going to get there soon" in any way, shape or form. The desired goal can still be arbitrarily far.