AI 2040 and the Cult of Intelligence đź”—
I used to be one of these people. I read Yudkowsky and was like, OMG recursive self improvement hard takeoff AI is coming. Then I joined the real worl [...]
the singularity is nearer
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Liminality đź”—
It’s crazy how much Fullmetal Alchemist mimics how AI is playing out. We pour human souls into a philosopher’s stone that we think will solve all our [...]
The doom justifies the valuation đź”—
I’ve been in Berkeley for the last 2 weeks. I haven’t really been back here for a while, and it’s worse than you can believe. This is a cult of atheis [...]
You don’t understand, prices can’t go down 🔗
Since at least 2008, every time there’s an option to either make the money track real value or make sure things don’t go down, they chose the latter. [...]
Summoning the Demon đź”—
Watch you hit the stage like a willing bomb The title is a 2014 Elon Musk quote. Now that we are 12 years in, it’s so true, but maybe not in the way i [...]
AI will be massively deflationary đź”—
The funny thing about Anthropic haters is that they still mostly believe Anthropic’s marketing. They think Claude is a recursively self-improving sili [...]
Stairway to Heaven đź”—
They are a highly sophisticated statistical model designed to mimic the distribution of programming. The output is broken, but in a way that’s getting [...]
Our Great War is a Spiritual War đź”—
I often come back to the question of why this is happening. Why do people want the centralized world? Why do people want the administered reality? Why [...]
The Eternal Sloptember đź”—
I’m calling it now, the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history. Agents cannot [...]
There is only one bad AI scenario đź”—
I’ve pushed AI doomers on how exactly the AI kills us, and I’ve never heard a good answer. I think Skynet style scenarios where humanity is largely op [...]