Re:AI is dramatically accelerating AI research
by michaelhoney on Friday November 06, 2026 @08:34PM
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I think you're not appreciating the work that Ajeya Cotra has done over the years. She really cares about timelines and existential risk.
Not everything is grift.
Re:AI is dramatically accelerating AI research
by lifeisloving on Friday November 06, 2026 @09:49PM
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There is no existential risk, they are statistical models that predict words. The fact that anyone says this makes them instantly not credible. Anyone who does is either a grifter, psychotic or both.
Re:AI is dramatically accelerating AI research
by frozenseven on Saturday November 07, 2026 @05:58AM
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>they are statistical models that predict words
And you people have been repeating this meaningless phrase for over six years now. But AI hasn't gone away, now has it? Progress is speeding up. Superintelligence is coming.
Re:AI is dramatically accelerating AI research
by lifeisloving on Saturday November 07, 2026 @11:54PM
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Keep telling yourself that text autocomplete is super intelligence. You sound like the people who said NFTs are the future and you better get witj the program.
I use llms all the time, they're useful, nobody is saying that.
Re:AI is dramatically accelerating AI research
by frozenseven on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:46PM
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>text autocomplete
Again, saying stuff like this has not worked in your favor. Just minutes ago Anthropic release another set of models that are better across the board. This will continue.
>NFTs
NFTs are alive and well. Rent free in the hearts and minds of anti-AI people. I didn't care then and I don't care now.
I dont think super intelligence will be here in a year, I think within a year AI/llms will have a similar sentiment surrounding them that NFTs do know (it already does for most normies). And most people will be recovering from a hype induced mania they lived in for two years straight.
Of course its more useful than NFTs, but when there's no giant bag to farm these hype monsters will inevitably disappear.
The bags are drying up fortunately and tokens/inference seems to be experiencing deflation, and hardware prices will eventually pop and contribute to further deflation, Then all the bag chasers will move back to crypto or whatever gets hot next.