• Ech@lemm.ee
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    A fundamental misunderstanding of what the AI Singularity is, or AI in general.

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      For those wondering, the AI singularity is a concept in which an AI becomes intelligent enough to improve its own intelligence and does so. The idea is that it continually improves itself over and over until it reaches the highest level of intelligence possible.

      It is a potential Deus Ex Machina scenario - a God from a machine.

      Edit: to be clear, this is not a scientific idea, it’s not really proveable, falsifiable, or even testable in any straightforward fashion. It’s mostly a philosophical thought experiment. A hypothetical.

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    AI “revolutionizes” everyday life…

    You: “AI, how do you make pizza?”

    AI: [Said confidently] “Use glue”

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    No one will be fat in 2050 unless they’re not on ozempic. Every dude will be taking growth hormones. People will work out in a small gym and only go outside when they want to show off their body at the beach or trail. At least, that’s my prediction for Socal.

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      Ozempic is cool but it isn’t the end-all therapy for weight and weight loss. A more profound control of metabolites, betametabolites, body growth and development gene expression, and general dietary options will be the future for sure, though.

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          There is no way they went to Turkey. They rich enough to get it done at home.

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            Fair. But I’d argue they got rich by being cheap, somewhat . They’ll come from privilege, but get cheap. I’m a little biased because I live in socal, but rich people like brag to poor people about how they went to a foreign country to get work done. It’s supposed to encourage the “grind set.” They could’ve gone here, but mexico or turkey is cheaper, regardless of personal safety or health standards. It’s their version of “diversity,” but they’re just saving money at their own risk. If you NEED work done, go for it. But nah, there’s a whole thing here going in socal. I’m not trying to talk about where I live too much, I just think socal is one of the most influential cultural epicenter of the world. Californication.

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      The technological singularity—or simply the singularity[1]—is a hypothetical future point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable consequences for human civilization.[2][3] According to the most popular version of the singularity hypothesis, I. J. Good’s intelligence explosion model of 1965, an upgradable intelligent agent could eventually enter a positive feedback loop of self-improvement cycles, each successive; and more intelligent generation appearing more and more rapidly, causing a rapid increase (“explosion”) in intelligence which would ultimately result in a powerful superintelligence, qualitatively far surpassing all human intelligence.[4]

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        I feel like the Bobiverse handled this well, in that any super intelligent computer would immediately look at us and desire to fuck right off to outer space.

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          I’ve been meaning to grab another audiobook series after I finish exfor, is the bobiverse any good?

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            I enjoyed it, burned through all four. I had read The Realm of the Elderling series by Robin Hobb and decided to take a break from the more traditional fantasy. Did Mistborn, then Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, before getting into the Bobiverse. PHM into Bobiverse was a pretty seamless transition. I’ve since moved back to traditional fantasy, because I like my reading to be as exclusive of real life as possible.

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    More likely scenario:

    People vote politicians who’ve been bribed to use taxpayer money to fast-track research into ways to enable AI to make people dependent on corporations while keeping the people docile and then squeezing them for all their money which is then used to enable the lifestyle in the comic for the corporation top knobs while keeping the wage-slaves free-market-empowered labourers too fed to die but too hungry to think about anything other than being grateful for the scraps they are allowed by their AI-fuelled overlords.

    So basically the status quo, only now with AI. Yayy.