It's probably cocaine
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2024
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It’s grifting, pure and simple. All those things may be possible but Sam Altman is spewing this line of bullshit to keep the venture capital flowing into his company.
Exactly. As a SW engineer, I don't know how far we are from an AGI exactly, but I am confident enough Altman and openAi have no idea where to even start.
As a SW engineer
I read that and immediately thought of you working in a Star Wars hangar, fixing rebel ships
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The current state of capitalism will ensure the second line never sees the light of day
We can already create enough abondance that no human starves, sleep outside or can't affotd medical treatment. Still look at the world.
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Abundance is already here, tons of food are destroyed and thrown out when they accidentally make too much while people are starving, there's no money in abundance, it's the artificial lack of supply that keeps prices high and profits soaring.
Food isn't the only resource in the equation. Most of the resources are limited and even diminishing.
I agree but I think their point was more along the lines of "Even if we have complete abundance of everything (as in, the capabilities to produce anything in abundance), capitalists will continue to create artificial lack of supply to continue profiting off of the workers. For example, look at the food abundance we have"
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The first paragraph? Can't say I disagree.
Second paragraph? Delusional. Or actively deceitful. Given Altman's background, I'm leaning toward the second.
We already have abundance at scale; the rest is just greed and logistics
It's enough to look at how much stuff is available in a supermarket, or in the average, home, to know we live in an age of abundance. The problem is, is that abundance is not shared, but hoarded.
We have enough food to feed the world, we have enough production for everyone in the world to have a smartphone and internet access and electricity. We can make clothes for everyone, we can home everyone. We have enough healthcare for everyone.
By an objective measure, we have abundance, we have enough. The world is just severely mismanaging our resources and the distribution of them. Because the economy doesn't work for humans, instead humans work for the economy.
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It's just bait for investors. This is the kind of crap that gets people with money and zero understanding of computers to buy stocks.
The thing that keeps us from living lives of abundance is not a lack of technology.
An issue with this tweet is that we already have the capacity to do a lot. We have the technology to provide healthy and diverse diets for the entire planet and fit a cities worth of farming inside a few city blocks (vertical hydroponics/aeroponics). We have the ability to create electricity in a dozen different renewable ways. We have the ability to desalinate water creating nearly infinite fresh water, we have enough square footage in the world to easily house everyone. We have stellar education systems that we could hand out to the entire world.
Why don't we do it? Well, all these things cost money. But the issue is, there also exists staggering amounts of money across the world. The panama papers revealed just a fraction of the wealth being hoarded by just a fraction of the wealthiest people in the world (and most implicated in the panema papers weren't even too crazy, like soccer stars and business owners). There's exists tens to hundreds of trillions of dollars of wealth created by the world just floating around in billionaires bank accounts and in the coffers of world powers.
So it's not an issue of abundance coming in the near future, we have it here on earth right now.
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If we means the human race, it's absolutely true. There's just no mention of a timeline.
These people are frauds.
This reads like Musk promising everyone that his imaginary train will be faster and cheaper than everything else.
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Marketing...
Every rich tech bro has convince themselves they are the savior of the world.
Great... And and will this abundance be shared or hoarded for profit like everything else that is abundant already is?
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Just put it in chatgpt I'm sure it will figure it all out
Sure. Just need to get a bunch of trillions hoarded away by billionaires and throw it at R&D to solve these problems and I bet it would happen.
These rich fuckers making proclamations like that yet somehow still expecting someone else to pay for the solutions.
He's not wrong. He's probably not going to be the guy leading the charge on any of that but he's not wrong.
He's forgetting about the part where it'll be monetized in such a way that only the rich will benefit.
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It's delusional. The problems we have are not caused by lack of technology and cannot be solved by new technology.
I think he believes what he's saying. From his perspective AGI will be great, and a lot of people think that AI and quantum computing will have a feedback loop where AI will help us create a better quantum computer which will make a better AI and so on...
Down here in the filth though, we're going to go through mass unemployment, rapid shifts in markets, loss of privacy due to increasingly sophisticated AI powered surveillance, and complete loss of our freedom of speech.
So, all that stuff probably will happen to people like him. Just not us.
AI will help us create a better quantum computer which will make a better AI
Current "AI" is just LLMs. They don't need some crazy quantum supercomputer. They aren't improved by more processing power.
They need a ton of data to work at a basic level. There's no reason to think that future programs will just get better on their own. Especially if a lot of data is now LLM generated. They have no capacity to learn on their own through research.
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Opium.
It's a cult. Altman is one of the TESCREAL devotees. He truly believes that he can build the electronic messiah.
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I gotta find a way to filter out techbros from my feed.
We don't even have NGI.
He isn't wrong, but the pathways is by taxing the absolute fuck out of billionaires
And who do you think will be in charge of all of these things? Lol
Cocaine is a helluva drug.
Aah, the innocence of 2022.. 🫠
they’re absolutely correct we will make all of these breakthroughs, but you dear reader? will benefit from none of them
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I don't think most of these people realize that Earth has finite resources, and we're already running short on some of them
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what is AGI?
Artificial General Intelligence
Adjusted Gross Income.
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