Re:The RAM shortage could last years
by krastanov on Sunday April 19, 2026 @10:14PM
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Who has been projecting FTL as a realistic technology ever? FTL is not possible according to the current laws of Physics, while AGI is at least not forbidden by them.
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We don't even know what human consciousness is. We can't even answer if we have free will or not. And you are proposing that AGI..is what exactly ?
> We don't even know what human consciousness is.
I think Douglas Hofstadter satisfactorily answered this question.
> We can't even answer if we have free will or not.
Sure we can, it's just that most people don't like the answer.
> I think Douglas Hofstadter satisfactorily answered this question.
He didn't prove anything. It's a theory, just like many others: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-higher/
> Sure we can, it's just that most people don't like the answer.
Again, not proven
There are also plenty of people who think you can't prove whether the Christian God exists. I don't take those people seriously.
Don't mistake continued debate amongst "experts" as being a signal that something is unsettled.
Re:The RAM shortage could last years
by stackbutterflow on Monday April 20, 2026 @03:41AM
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The IQ of the smartest human, the perfect memory storing and recollection of computers, the fact that it never tires. I don't know if it's AGI but it's already something greater than us.
If it was greater than humans already it wouldn't need humans to help it work.
Is the IQ measured by tests created for and answered by humans in the training data?
ok...there's no 'general' IQ afaik
I think this should be something you can answer for yourself by looking at human media and news over the lasy 100 years. I find it hard to belive you haven't ever noticed anyone seriously saying we may possibly have FTL sometime in the future. Incidentially I think I read on HackerNews that Sam Altman has been talking about building Dyson Spheres in the future. I suppose they're not forbidden by the current laws of phyisics either, but I don't know if I would call them a realistic technology.