After the #BigTech countless #LLM galaxies formed. At the center of each sits a super-massive Black Box. Hidden inside lurks the mysterious #Singularity. Which is nothing more than a concept as we don't know what the heck is going on there. All our common sense breaks down, after we crossed the #CriticalThinking boundary. Coming close to the event horizon of any Black Box inevitably leads to #enshittifaction as a person is sucked into the void. An outside observer would see that person frozen in time, stagnant. As the #AI universe expands, continuous https://socialcooling.com will eventually lead to the Big 鈽狅笍 RIP of #Humanity, who invented the Laws of Online #Nature.
Ben Ramsey
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@glyph I have never worried about the #Singularity because in the late nineties, on two separate occasions, I spoke at length with two (then and still today) fairly well-known Ayatollahs of the movement.
They both made certain to mention that they thought I was smart鈥攑erhaps even approaching as smart as they thought they were!鈥攁nd so they were candid and enthusiastic with me. Neither had studied biology (ahem ahem obviously), and both genuinely were eager to share ideas with a PhD student in molecular biology.
When I pointed out that exponential growth always, but always, leads to system collapse in nature; when I pointed out that in a universe finite in space and time, this is the rigidly necessary requirement of arithmetic, they both responded nonverbally: with a dismissive wave of the hand.
In short, the entire movement is based on the belief that Technology is Magic.
At the time I had not reached the level of cynicism to see where it would go in thirty years.
I have never worried about the singularity because I had a single conversation in 2007 with a guy who worked in a chip fab, and learned just the tiniest bit about the physical, mechanical process that goes into actually manufacturing a microprocessor, and how much of it requires direct intervention of human hands despite everyone involved in the process having wanted to automate it all since 1980
@glyph I have never worried about the #Singularity because in the late nineties, on two separate occasions, I spoke at length with two (then and still today) fairly well-known Ayatollahs of the movement.
They both made certain to mention that they thought I was smart鈥攑erhaps even approaching as smart as they thought they were!鈥攁nd so they were candid and enthusiastic with me. Neither had studied biology (ahem ahem obviously), and both genuinely were eager to share ideas with a PhD student in molecular biology.
When I pointed out that exponential growth always, but always, leads to system collapse in nature; when I pointed out that in a universe finite in space and time, this is the rigidly necessary requirement of arithmetic, they both responded nonverbally: with a dismissive wave of the hand.
In short, the entire movement is based on the belief that Technology is Magic.
At the time I had not reached the level of cynicism to see where it would go in thirty years.