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Re:The Myth of a Superhuman AI on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @03:43PM (#28306004)
>This is a pretty bad article.

Agreed.

Dunno why he thinks this: "At the core of the notion of a superhuman intelligence — particularly the view that this intelligence will keep improving itself — is the essential belief that intelligence has an infinite scale."

The notion of self-improvement is both powerful and not assumed to be 'infinite'.

I figure it goes like this:

Q. Is AI potentially dangerous? A. Yes.

Q. Will it be human-like? A. Probably not.

People tend to couch these discussions as a series of anthropomorphisms.

Re:My MacBook Pro had over 10k USD in repairs on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @03:37PM (#28305930)
>having multiple devices for different things.

That's my take, although I don't own $1000 worth of computers all added together.

I'm always surprised when people use laptops for professional work as I've always had great honkin' company-supplied desktop machines. Generally, if something breaks (which is super rare) the main cost is the time to rebuild an environment.