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It utterly befuddles me that so many people still can't (or refuse to) sense what's coming. Be it bad or good the magnitude of what is now unfolding is beyond e

It utterly befuddles me that so many people still can't (or refuse to) sense what's coming. Be it bad or good the magnitude of what is now unfolding is beyond everything that homo sapiens have ever witnessed. Unless we think that MI advancement will miraculously stall and never improve beyond current capabilities, I cannot conceive of future, even a near future, that we recognize as real. >I think then we have some big waves that will wash over any observations we could make at this point in time. This is spot on. Exactly as how we didn't know what the internet would be, the wiser amongst us realized it was a new and strange era. "An alien lifeform. Unimaginable, both amazing and terrifying." - Bowie. MI will far eclipse the internet.

apsurd 3y ago
I don't know, that's quite the romantic take. I can easily admit I don't know what's coming, but _homo sapiens have ever witnessed_... _cannot conceive of near future that we recognize as real_. Come on, lol Imagine yourself in the movie Apocalypto and I'm using a Hollywood film on purpose here - the entire Universe of being as you see it all the sudden explodes its Universe with new Gods/demons different and more powerful _everything_ coming to kill you. And then there's the boring discovery of "we're just one planet in one solar system in one Galaxy... LLMs gonna be orders of magnitude beyond that (in)comprehension? I mean maybe it will be more powerful and maybe it will come to kill us, but that's not an inconceivable new story line. Funny that both of us can accuse one another of hubris.
- flangola7 3y ago
  Is this GPT-2 generated? I've tired reading it three times and I still can't make heads or tails of it.
  - apsurd 3y ago
    I see what you did there gpt-"2". at least you don't dislike enough to downvote. not sure what's not understandable. I think parent is overly hyperbolic. i get that chat GPT is unprecedented, but come on "impossible to conceive of near-term reality" ??? edit: oh! you're the parent. yeah i think you're wildly hyperbolic. There's more drastic historical precedents but of course the future is by definition going to be inevitably more inconceivable over a long enough arc, so I don't think of this as a debate. I just think you're being overly dramatic for effect.
    - flangola7 3y ago
      That was not meant as an insult or downvote, I literally do not understand your comment. >Imagine yourself in the movie Apocalypto and I'm using a Hollywood film on purpose here - the entire Universe of being as you see it all the sudden explodes its Universe with new Gods/demons different and more powerful _everything_ coming to kill you. And then there's the boring discovery of "we're just one planet in one solar system in one Galaxy... This is gibberish word salad.

apsurd 3y ago

I don't know, that's quite the romantic take. I can easily admit I don't know what's coming, but _homo sapiens have ever witnessed_... _cannot conceive of near future that we recognize as real_. Come on, lol Imagine yourself in the movie Apocalypto and I'm using a Hollywood film on purpose here - the entire Universe of being as you see it all the sudden explodes its Universe with new Gods/demons different and more powerful _everything_ coming to kill you. And then there's the boring discovery of "we're just one planet in one solar system in one Galaxy... LLMs gonna be orders of magnitude beyond that (in)comprehension? I mean maybe it will be more powerful and maybe it will come to kill us, but that's not an inconceivable new story line. Funny that both of us can accuse one another of hubris.

flangola7 3y ago
Is this GPT-2 generated? I've tired reading it three times and I still can't make heads or tails of it.
- apsurd 3y ago
  I see what you did there gpt-"2". at least you don't dislike enough to downvote. not sure what's not understandable. I think parent is overly hyperbolic. i get that chat GPT is unprecedented, but come on "impossible to conceive of near-term reality" ??? edit: oh! you're the parent. yeah i think you're wildly hyperbolic. There's more drastic historical precedents but of course the future is by definition going to be inevitably more inconceivable over a long enough arc, so I don't think of this as a debate. I just think you're being overly dramatic for effect.
  - flangola7 3y ago
    That was not meant as an insult or downvote, I literally do not understand your comment. >Imagine yourself in the movie Apocalypto and I'm using a Hollywood film on purpose here - the entire Universe of being as you see it all the sudden explodes its Universe with new Gods/demons different and more powerful _everything_ coming to kill you. And then there's the boring discovery of "we're just one planet in one solar system in one Galaxy... This is gibberish word salad.