Someone is wrong on the internet (AGI Doom edition)
The last few years have seen a wave of hysteria about LLMs becoming conscious and then suddenly attempting to kill humanity. This hysteria, ...
Hasnain says:
His writing is always pretty on point, and this is a well argued piece. This made me chuckle though:
“Apparently, the Kurzweilian ideas have mutated over time, and seem to have taken root in a group of folks associated with a forum called "LessWrong", a more high-brow version of 4chan where mostly young men try to impress each other by their command of mathematical vocabulary (not of actual math). One of the founders of this forum, Eliezer Yudkowsky, has become one of the most outspoken proponents of the hypothesis that "the end is nigh".”
Posted on 2024-07-13T06:27:21+0000