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Because we already achieved it, haven't you saw the post by Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang?

Nvidia's Jensen Huang says "We've achieved AGI."

It's funny because I remember people said these things about gaming and computers when they were at their infancy

You are right that there will be some people who cannot financially continue with Mathematics as a career. I think that is horrible for society.

Stephen King on writing; “Look- here’s a table covered with red cloth. On it is a cage the size of a small fish aquarium. In the cage is a white rabbit with a pink nose and pink-rimmed eyes. […] On its back, clearly marked in blue ink, is the numeral 8. […] The most interesting thing here isn’t even the carrot-munching rabbit in the cage, but the number on its back. Not a six, not a four, not nineteen-point-five. It’s an eight. This is what we’re looking at, and we all see it. I didn’t tell you. You didn’t ask me. I never opened my mouth and you never opened yours. We’re not even in the same year together, let alone the same room… except we are together. We are close. We’re having a meeting of the minds. […] We’ve engaged in an act of telepathy. No mythy-mountain shit; real telepathy.”

Is human endeavor really just "neurons" and "reward pathways", skinner boxes nonsense? A writer writes, hoping his writings reaches the mind of others. A painter paints, hoping their paintings communicate a thousand words from his spirit's depths. I think the act of making effort is more than mastery, it is a commune with oneself, and others.

Based. Sounds like a proper hardworking billionaire.

Second order effects, that rational types fail to grasp

Gamedevs can make better games with AI! Yet the creatives don't get into gamedev if they didn't have to spend any effort to make their art

Mathematicians can advance mathematics with AI! Yet mathematicians don't get into mathematics because they want to "advance" mathematics

Teachers can teach better with AI, writers can write better with AI.. Can they?

Can't you people understand romance and the beauty of the human endeavor

Sounds like involution

Next step is 9to9/7days for the American worker to compete, or else you'll be left behind

I don't think 2 trillion USD was invested into AI for "more productivity", without any financial gains.

Or maybe it was! And investors were actually great humanitarians!

I was being sarcastic there

I think this is a wrong appraisal of the story.

This is the first time someone did this, and therefore other people could start to ask for similar accommodations. The idea is important

True, like the Iranians

poison pilling

societal ostracization (e.g. boycotts)

sabotaging data centers, data gathering infra (flock cameras), web infrastructure

These are just methods within the current societal norms and context, if not I could think of 10 more.

For example, it is not beyond the realm of imagination to think that large swathes of people could stop using technology (as in phones & computers) altogether, and return to a more traditional physical communal state.

It is not beyond the realm of imagination that countries, after suffering from cyber attacks, could start decoupling themselves from the global internet, and wall themselves off (similar to China), and develop their own unique culture around technology.

It is not beyond the realm of imagination that tags like Anti-AI be mandated to be attached to products similarly to kosher, halal, etc.

Hopefully you can build something that lets young people buy a house

1. destruction of the digital arts (music, 2d/3d art) industry

2. greatest hacking tool in history

3. greatest corporate espionage tool in history (stealing of Navier-Stokes solution)

4. greatest accountability transfer tool in history (whoops it was the AI that shot those missiles)

5. greatest capital raising tool in history (we use AI in our startup, and you should give us money)

6. greatest scamming tool in history (cloning people voices for scam calls, etc..)

Edit:Whoops, I didn't read "positively"

google? anna's archive? arXiv?

"democratization of information", maybe if you were too lazy to click on a google link

"Burns down the societal structures for gaining mathematical knowledge"

"Not our problem lmao, our IPO valuation went up"

Wow really? I didn't know all pure mathematicians were elitists

You are right, we should get rid of their profession

AI doesn't think

The pie didn't get bigger (equivalent to economy)

The number of pie eaters (equivalent to workers) got bigger.

Yeah, there isn't anything wrong with encouraging people to get into mathematics But recommending it as a career, might be delusional, maybe harmful? (Although people say that about artists too)

lol "We support open weight models!"

BUT!!!!!!

"We should not sell powerful chips or chipmaking equipment to China"

"We should crack down on industrial-scale distillation operations."

"All sufficiently capable models, open and closed, should go through mandatory safety testing."

There are many, already available to join

sexual maybe

romantic? really?

I had an assumption that most of human history, marriage was more of an arranged marriage thing. With a lot of "women being treated as property", "heirs required for transfer of wealth", etc notation.

And there were also societies that were polyamorous in nature?

We are in a new world now, there is no need to force traditions (or worse yet, false traditions) that frankly doesn't seem to work anymore

There are your Paul Feyerabend s and there are your reddit atheists which the HN crowd tend towards, who simplify all complex relations in the world to Scientific, Testable, Linear logic. It may as well be as a result of the education system or the Industrial Revolution, but that is the prevalent logic in the world. Unfortunately we do not live in a time of philosophy anymore

There are hobbies that are heavily social.. I don't know what kind of maniac would make videogames purely for themselves

Imagine an apocalyptic zombie world, and what the last remaining man seek to do is... make video games for himself

That's the wrong way of thinking of it. It should be Governed OAgentic Development, a.k.a GOD

If you can't be bothered to read a short paragraph, might I raise that you have an attention-span deficit disorder?

Indeed, planning an itinerary, making calculations, building excitement for a place, is part of the journey

I suspect the HN techno-brained crowd will not appreciate it, many are quick to throw away their human experience

With AI software replication, I wonder if shareholder value even increases. Services accounts for 80% of American industry, what happens when big software companies loses revenue to piracy/recompilation i.e. Adobe, Unity, AutoDesk, tax/law software, etc..

The alternative is people stop using these apps, consumer demand goes down, along with the GDP of the country.

I've watched some videos from Chinese commentary on AI usage in the industry,

Some examples are finance people directly asking for API access now so that they can make their own tools. These tools used to be maintained by teams of developers.

Many business making their own customized scripts to make their tasks faster.

From an economic point of view, it seems like there are some productivity increases, but I don't think these can be concluded for a while. The rational thinking rarely account for second order effects. Although business leaders rarely care about second order effects, a worse business is not immediately noticeable, compared to hiring cuts and the money it saves