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The AGI cult is like every other doomsday cult, except instead of prayers it’s GPU cycles.

Like, it’s 1350 and you’re dying of Black Death, and the nearby monks—the only people in town who could read—would literally be like “you didn’t pray hard enough.”

They’re doing the same shit with GPUs believing if they just waste enough energy, some kind of computer messiah will pop out.

It’s so totally unhinged. Solve a real problem. Fucking dumb bastards.

“BUT it’ll fix climate change.”

WE DONT NEED THE MAGIC COMPUTER FOR THAT. WE KNOW HOW TO DO THAT, BUT WE NEED POLITICAL WILL AND ORGANIZATION.

@thedansimonson this is what happens when people get stuck in one level of abstraction. If you refuse to understand the problem specifically and concretely, and remain at the business-level understanding of "AI", then nonsense like "technology to produce a more efficient way of thinking through problems, like AI, will make technological solutions to all problems, including climate change, more feasible" is sadly very believable.