“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.
Years ago, I read someone post “you (computer touchers) don’t ‘fucking love’ science, you stare at its ass while it walks by.”
That’s what we’re seeing in the “singularity” cult: people that don’t actually have much of a grasp of science but are really really excited about vague promises of immortality and superpowers.
Humans have been dreaming about finding the secret to immortality for thousands of years. It isn’t possible and it isn’t happening in our life time. With how critically underfunded scientific research is, at best scientists may find a way to slow down the aging process by 5 to 10% each generation.
Under the present system, life extension is a luxury for the worst people in society that’ll keep them around even longer and stretch out their most stubborn and lich-like phases of their extended lives. Shit sucks.
Yeah, it just isn’t happening without a massive cooperative effort over generations. Not just the time for each generation of volunteers to be monitored, but also the work needed to address age-related entropy that isn’t purely “lifespan” - no point splicing yourself into tortoise-person if you spend the next three hundred years as Joe Biden.
That’s a selfless undertaking for tens of thousands who will never see the benefits and might suffer some real nasty side effects. Leaving aside whether or not it should be done in the first place, it’s just not compatible with the Rich Man Afraid of Hypothetical Screaming Void impulse which drives modern life extension nowadays.
I disagree that it’s impossible but agree that it’s not gonna happen by stuffing ourselves with microprocessors