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AGI is a cult and its Jonestown moment is inevitable
by mbgerring 25d ago
AGI is a cult and its Jonestown moment is inevitable
- brcmthrowaway 25d agoSo you dont use agentic coding?
- mbgerring 25d agoYes, I do use the recursive autocomplete trained on Stack Overflow, what does this have to do with “training machines to love”? Do I fully endorse everything the people holding guns to my head are forcing me to do to stay alive? Definitely not, but I’ve decided that for now, living to fight another day remains worth it
- everyone 25d agoI dont, its fucking shit at what I do.
- customguy 25d agoAs in, don't be ungrateful to our lord, because we're not a cult?
- customguy 25d agoWell, translate it then, because that's the best I could do. How is the question whether someone uses agentic coding relevant in this context? To me it's like asking "so, do never drink Kool-Aid and never attend meetings?" with an air of having caught someone out, and to me the obvious reply would be "sure do, but it's not poisoned Kool-Aid and they're not cult meetings, so why do you ask?"
- kmeisthax 25d agoI am now imagining GPT-7 convincing a bunch of OpenAI executives to go ahead with a destructive "mind upload" process involving a high-resolution X-ray and a neurotoxic tracer agent that happens to look like Flavor-Aid.
- quikoa 25d agoOn the off chance that OpenAI executives are reading this. I'll totally believe AGI is here if they do this.
- AlexKalWork 24d agoThat would make a great movie.
- berytos_storm 25d agoHopefully soon lol. Jones had vastly more charisma than Sam Altman could dream of though.