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> if we get to ASI, we can solve all other issues with it

Jesus Christ this has to be bait. Added to the favourites to laugh about it when the lunacy and hype has died down in 5 years and the trough of disillusionment has truly settled in.

Or to laugh about it when ASI actually has arrived and we're waiting in line to be turned into biofuel for the Greater Good.

Everybody is literally pinning their hopes that God itself comes out of machine to save them from the exponentially accelerating pile of tech debt, and they're not even half joking about it. This is not engineering, this is utter madness.



I'd say it is engineering. There's a Moore's law like steady progress where the effective IQ goes up each year which will result in neither troughs nor biofuel but just smart AI.

Given human nature I also think it'll be kind of undramatic. Like when jet aviation transformed things people moan about check-in queues and maybe with ASI people will probably moan their robot butler is only 200 IQ when their neighbours is 205.


Its just the next hype cycle that all of the crypto people have moved on to.

Making hyperbolic claims about new tech makes people billions, until that changes you will always see this crap.

This site is owned an operated by people building empires around that principle.


Say what you want about crypto, they didn’t expect Jesus to descend from the sky to shill Bitcoin.


I remember having conversations with crypto shills where they really thought blockchains were going to be used to replace nation states.

They had whole manifestos prepared about how crypto was going to reshape society as we know it.

Its the same exact people making the same exact claims, only difference is substitution of "blockchain" for "ai".




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