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Related. Others? Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34257025 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=342570

by dang 5mo ago

Related. Others? Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34257025 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34257025 - Jan 2023 (1 comment) Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18499973 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18499973 - Nov 2018 (248 comments) Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13240811 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13240811 - Dec 2016 (580 comments) Maciej Ceglowski – Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13120213 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13120213 - Dec 2016 (4 comments)

thoughtpeddler 5mo ago
Thanks dang for compiling this. I suspect the Nov 2018 resurgence was due to Google publishing BERT [0] around that time? The release of OpenAI’s GPT-1 [1] was earlier that year in June, so unlikely that. Of course Jan 2023 needs no explanation… And now in 2026 things are at a fever pitch. Interesting to trace these 10yr old AI posts from then to the present moment. The other one with a similar vintage would be “Should AI Be Open” [2] from Dec 2015, which is fascinating to juxtapose against the recent public battles. [0] “BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding“: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04805 https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04805 [1] “Improving Language Understanding by Generative Pre-Training”: https://cdn.openai.com/research-covers/language-unsupervised/language_understanding_paper.pdf https://cdn.openai.com/research-covers/language-unsupervised... [2] “Should AI Be Open?” | Slate Star Codex: https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/12/17/should-ai-be-open/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/12/17/should-ai-be-open/

by dang 5mo ago

thoughtpeddler 5mo ago

Thanks dang for compiling this. I suspect the Nov 2018 resurgence was due to Google publishing BERT [0] around that time? The release of OpenAI’s GPT-1 [1] was earlier that year in June, so unlikely that. Of course Jan 2023 needs no explanation… And now in 2026 things are at a fever pitch. Interesting to trace these 10yr old AI posts from then to the present moment. The other one with a similar vintage would be “Should AI Be Open” [2] from Dec 2015, which is fascinating to juxtapose against the recent public battles. [0] “BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding“: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04805 https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04805 [1] “Improving Language Understanding by Generative Pre-Training”: https://cdn.openai.com/research-covers/language-unsupervised/language_understanding_paper.pdf https://cdn.openai.com/research-covers/language-unsupervised... [2] “Should AI Be Open?” | Slate Star Codex: https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/12/17/should-ai-be-open/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/12/17/should-ai-be-open/