“This 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.”
“Every 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.”
““AGI is coming out next year” - this sub for the last 4 years”
some self aware highlights.
The only “singularity” I trust:
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
i mean theyre cultists so
the leap from ‘cute statistics engine that is basically an elaborate and flawed google search’ to ‘thinking robot girlfriend that worships me’ is huge and they keep acting like its trivial
the leap from ‘cute statistics engine that is basically an elaborate and flawed google search’ to ‘thinking robot girlfriend that worships me’ is huge and they keep acting like its trivial
Sometimes the leap feels easier to make for them if they belittle living beings and call them “meat puppets” or “meat computers.” Saw that shit on Hexbear too before the LLM grift and the societal enshittification and environmental damage it was causing became too obvious to ignore, even if some were fine with “not real jobs” being eliminated back then.
if they belittle living beings
To be fair, the “cute statistics engine” has already achieved artificial liberalism
Missed this saga, what was the hype about? Grok2?
strawberry man used the hype by pretending to be an insider and making claims that strawberry is coming very soon and will completely change everything
Lol people still fall for the “my dad works for nintendo” bit when no other independent source can verify the claim?
Lol people still fall for the “my dad works for nintendo” bit when no other independent source can verify the claim?
It is just as embarrassing as the people who buy into “insider political leaks.” Unnamed, unverifiable sources are almost always fabricated
Not necessarily. Often it’s coming from a real source, it’s that if the source was known it’d be blatantly obvious the “leak” isn’t juicy truths TPTB are trying to keep from us but rather blatant propaganda from TPTB are pushing to manufacture consent.
I don’t follow. Half-truths are lies in my book so it sounds like we agree that those claims are largely fabrications aimed to stir up drama (increase engagement) or deceive us (manufacture consent)
Either way, it shouldn’t be legal for any journalist to try to pass off unverifiable gossip as legitimate News.
Depends on the nature of political leaks. A lot are deliberately leaked to control the narrative. For example, leaks about Biden “being furious” with Netanyahu is just to appeal to west wing brained liberals. Or how “anonymous sources revealed” to MSM that “Ukrainians” were behind the Nordstream bombing. In the latter case, they admit it was sabotage, but want a different narrative around it.
Does anyone truly believe that Ukraine destroyed NS2 on their own? Biden told the whole world he was going to “bring and end to it” if Russia invaded Ukraine and that is exactly what he did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS4O8rGRLf8&t=90 “How will you stop NS2, it belongs to Germany?” “I promise you we WILL do it”
I hadn’t put it together before but it completely makes sense that singularity believers would easily fall for AI hype.
Drooling with anticipation for sapient hologram helpmeets with godlike powers that also unconditionally love them and want to fuck them lead to some very wishful thinking.
Gonna have to wait a long time now that every startup grift and zombie legacy company has redefined AI to mean “computer does stuff” and declared victory. At least, if the billboards on the 101 I see on the way to SFO are any indication - Salesforce will use “AI” to increase your “productivity”. What does that mean? It means give us your money, chumps.
Not that AI robot slave girlfriends were ever happening in any case; obviously everyone in /r/singularity is competing for the title of most scientifically illiterate person alive and has no clue how the brain - or anything, really - works.
One of the weirdest struggle sessions I had before I was away for almost a year was some smug computer toucher that directly invoked that movie for their argument for why LLMs were at least as sentient/sapient as us mere meat computers.
Yes, others also brought up that it was fiction and fiction doesn’t have to adhere to scientific or philosophical rigor, but that treat hog didn’t care. We’re all meat puppets and our consciousness is an illusion to them and the treat printer said “I love you” so it’s just like it was for John Blade Runner, who would totally drive a Cybertruck
yeah, iirc the first step to singularity or at least what causes it is an ASI so we have this community of dweebs thinking that that’ll solve everything and not, like, communism, which probably won’t solve everything but certainly more than whatever the fuck llms are doing.
