> You're implying Well, this entire discussion is built on assumptions about what would happen in very speculative circumstances for which no precedent exists,

> You're implying Well, this entire discussion is built on assumptions about what would happen in very speculative circumstances for which no precedent exists, so yeah, I am allowed to make as many assumptions of my own as I please ;-) > A 2022 AI can already beat most humans in the game Diplomacy: And a 1698 Savery Engine can pump water better than even the strongest human. > in the near future when GPUs become abundant, many small groups of people can harbor a copy of an AGI in their basement Interesting. On what data is the emergence of AGI "in the near future" based if I may ask, given that there is still no definition of the term "Intelligence" that doesn't involve pointing at ourselves? When is "near future"? Is it 1 year, 2, 10, 100? How does anyone measure how far away something is, if we have no metric to determine the distance between the existing and the assumed result? Oh, and of course, that is before we even ask the question whether or not an AGI is possible at all, which would be another very interesting question to which there is currently no answer.