How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time
www.technologyreview.com
The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely and you’ll see it’s a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies do.
    • istewart@awful.systemsEnglish
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      2 months ago

      The man just can’t get a normal hobby. We tried Labubus, but he just sat there sweating all over everything and ranting about how it’s the inevitable scapegoat for the collapse of Western aesthetic sensibilities

  • BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systemsEnglish
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    2 months ago

    “I’m sort of a complex chaotic systems guy, so I have a low estimate that I actually know what the nonlinear dynamic in the memosphere really was,”

    I say right before inhaling deeply from a bag in which I have dispensed a hefty amount of spray paint.

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
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      2 months ago

      That my fault, Im Bens former weed dealer, and accidentally sold him glue instead of weed. He liked it a lot more, and easily gotten in most stores.

      • BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systemsEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Honestly, this sort of quote from Goertzel is the kind of thing I would expect as the satirized musings from a pompous character in the Illuminatus Trilogy.