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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not to play innocent — i know this is a minority view and that my tweet is inflammatory — but it’s also an honest statement and — maybe? — it’s interesting to somebody to know how ridiculous the entire discourse appears from at least someone’s vantage
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“this seems ridiculous to me” is quite different from “and anyone who disagrees with me is a buffoon” - frankly i am feeling angry and hurt and also disappointed, i guess i expected better from you
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you’re shitting on 10 years of my life and dozens of people i respect a lot even if i happen to disagree with them more now than i used to
could i ask you: how do you feel about the life work of thousands of monks in places like oxbridge, where they tried to find proof of god using all the analytical tools they had available to them at the time?
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🥲 too much?
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easy friend i’m not shitting on you i like you
honestly had i any idea you or any mutuals were sufficiently identified w this research to take my shitpost personally i would have phrased it differently
i will leave it as is in the hopes that this conversation will be fruitful
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