Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Opening the sack with this shit that spawned in front of me:
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says GPT-8 will be true AGI if it solves quantum gravity ā the father of quantum computing agrees
Guess it wonāt be true AGI!
Is this true for everything else, too? I will be a true AGI if I solve quantum gravity. A half eaten salami will be true AGI if it solves quantum gravity. My grandmother will be a true bicycle if she has wheels.
If saltman knew what quantum gravity was and why LLMs wonāt solve it first, maybe heād have general intelligence
On top of everything else, āthe father of quantum computingā is such lazy writing. People were thinking about it before Deutsch, going back at least to Paul Benioff in 1979. Charlie Bennett and Giles Brassardās proposal for quantum key distribution predates Deutschās quantum Turing machineā¦ No one person should be called āthe father ofā a subject that had so many crucial contributors in such a short period of time.
Also, chalk up another win for the ābillionaires want you to think they are physicistsā hypothesis. Itās perhaps not as dependable as pedocon theory, but itās putting in a strong showing.
wait, how much compute would they need for this, ignore patent absurdity of it all for a minute? would they wrap it up under 1 quadrillion dollars?
If we knew that we wouldnāt need a GPT-8 to solve quantum gravity, would we now?
maybe 2, for good measure
Pigs will be a true method of space exploration if they can fly to Mars in 1 hour.
And then you read the article and he is basically just saying big if true.
GPT-8: The Ocho
Now trained with comprehensive coverage of top-fuel lawnmower racing and timbersports
I hear GPT-8 will broadcast a dyson sphere circumnavigation race
So as historically new versions are made about every ~2 years. This means we are 6 years out.
E: late edit, but this made me realize how often people use AGI to mean ASI. And that I also often do it.