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Oh ez, that’s only 17 orders of magnitude!

If we managed an optimistic pace of doubling every year that’d only take… 40 years. The last few survivors on desert world can ask it if it was worth it

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Rather amusing prediction that despite the obscene amount of resources being spent on AI compute already, it’s apparently reasonable to expect to spend 1,000,000x that in the “near future”.

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cool graph what’s the x axis

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Bitcoin.

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that looks like someone used win9x mspaint to make a flag, fucked it up, and then fucked it up even more on the saving throw

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What these people don’t realize is you’re never gonna get AGI by just feeding a machine an infinite amount of raw data.

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You’re right. We should move onto feeding it orphans

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Oh, that’s why the orphan crushing machine exists. Completely realistic, actually.

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Check out my new startup at modestproposal.ai

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You sound very confident of that. Have you tried it?

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There might actually be nothing bad about the Torment Nexus, and the classic sci-fi novel “Don’t Create The Torment Nexus” was nonsense. We shouldn’t be making policy decisions based off of that.

wild

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