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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

by 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.

by apsurd 3y ago

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.