people who believe in absurd unfalsifiable abstractions like “artificial general intelligence” are best kept at arm’s length because they are dangerously gullible buffoons easily manipulated into other arbitrary beliefs by the cynical
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look man, you’re badmouthing a lot of people i knew well and worked with for years, who were trying carefully to figure out hard things. whatever argument you have in mind is not obvious and you could be giving it instead of assuming that people you disagree with are idiots
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ugh sorry i guess i was being rhetorical again — i honestly don’t mean to be rude
from my perspective it’s self-evident that agi is ill-defined and unfalsifiable? in large part because “sentience” is a placeholder with no agreed-upon definition?
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“intelligence” as it’s used here doesn’t have anything to do with sentience or consciousness, it’s entirely about optimization power. an AGI is just something that can accomplish difficult tasks