āThis whole saga makes me genuinely embarrassed to follow this stuff. I just want a sub that has an informed opinion on AI, this is worse than crypto bro bullshit.ā
āEvery hype-man who posts vague tweets and hype posts should be ridiculed. Every clown who posts screenshots of said tweets on this sub should be ridiculed.ā
āāAGI is coming out next yearā - this sub for the last 4 yearsā
some self aware highlights.
Years ago, I read someone post āyou (computer touchers) donāt āfucking loveā science, you stare at its ass while it walks by.ā
Thatās what weāre seeing in the āsingularityā cult: people that donāt actually have much of a grasp of science but are really really excited about vague promises of immortality and superpowers.
Humans have been dreaming about finding the secret to immortality for thousands of years. It isnāt possible and it isnāt happening in our life time. With how critically underfunded scientific research is, at best scientists may find a way to slow down the aging process by 5 to 10% each generation.
Yeah, it just isnāt happening without a massive cooperative effort over generations. Not just the time for each generation of volunteers to be monitored, but also the work needed to address age-related entropy that isnāt purely ālifespanā - no point splicing yourself into tortoise-person if you spend the next three hundred years as Joe Biden.
Thatās a selfless undertaking for tens of thousands who will never see the benefits and might suffer some real nasty side effects. Leaving aside whether or not it should be done in the first place, itās just not compatible with the Rich Man Afraid of Hypothetical Screaming Void impulse which drives modern life extension nowadays.
