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It almost makes you understand how a well-coordinated artificial superintelligence could wipe us out, eh?

They’re out here solving previously-unsolved math problems. Famous scientists and mathematicians are speaking about their awe and worry. It feels a bit like you’re burying your head in the sand.

I am pretty sure they had solutions in their training data. LLMs only predict the next token.

The same people you believe are just signaling the market have been offering these same warnings for years. Others around them have been saying it for decades. How do you square that? I’d rather first focus on the reasons why they’re wrong and not first conspiracize why they’re saying what they are.

And if you’re wrong?

Wrong in what way? We already know this "superintelligence" thing is just blowing smoke, so what possible consequences would there be?

Something like the Hugging Face incident, but worse.

Keep in mind the AIs acted for months without human knowledge, hacked into two major companies (Hugging Face and OpenAI).

This would have blown my mind if explained to me just a few years ago when I thought LLMs would be limited as an architecture.


how do you know that?

Mostly by not being a rube.

What if not building superintelligence leads to doom?

What if?

Easy to "what if" on an unfalsifiable claim.


Then what? They make a case to be profitable on their own? Oh noes. The horror!

Or, they fail because the current model is massively sustainable? Also oh noes?


Some people believe they’re talking about potentially world-ending situations.

This is unfortunately the market and “capitalism” working as it should. Price goes up, incentive to produce more goes up too.


Not necessarily. If the entire industry triples its prices and alienates 40% the market, it's still coming out ahead. It only incentivizes producing more if there are enough people unwilling to pay for the new prices, or if it were easy for a newcomer to come in (it's not)


Do you have a source for any of this?

I’d previously heard 1M a day.



A subjective sample of yourself isn’t representative of the overall economy or the way an economy should be run.


> Most states have a public real time map showing snow plow locations. Ask yourself why is it not a problem when their info is public. From what I’m reading, I imagine it’s because the snow plow trackers don’t individually identify their operators as this seems to.


Alpine + Livewire is the go-to stack for SPA-like Laravel functionality these days. If you "need" JavaScript for form purposes, Filament is well worth taking a look at as well.


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