Recent comments in /f/singularity

just-a-dreamer- t1_j5qx88t wrote

Reply to What ethical ramifications do programmers, corps, & gov take into consideration to protect AI consciousnesses that may emerge? by chomponthebit

????? Does a toaster have feelings? I hope not.

Consider an AI as a toaster with god like intelligence that executes a given task. What we call "consciousnes" is a product of 2 billion years of evolution.

An AI is never matched against nature like countless biological generations in 2 billion years of evolution, so there is no reason to assume it will develop something like a consciousnes.

A human being that merges with ASI though, that is another story.

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_dekappatated OP t1_j5qsma3 wrote

Reply to comment by vinayd in This subreddit has seen the largest increase of users in the last 2 months, gaining nearly 30k people since the end of November by _dekappatated

I follow a lot of AI researchers on twitter, occasionally check out https://www.lesswrong.com, try to read some of the research papers, learn about LLMs, transformers, watch some youtube videos to get high level overviews on concepts, watch new releases for big companies like tesla and nvidia. I'm subbed to a lot of AI related subs, but I haven't seen any of extremely high quality. Trying to do the best to position myself in a way to profit off new technology as it is released and try to get to thinking about it before it is released. Also subbed to product specific subs like /r/midjourney and /r/chatGPT

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vinayd t1_j5qrhis wrote

Reply to comment by pre-DrChad in This subreddit has seen the largest increase of users in the last 2 months, gaining nearly 30k people since the end of November by _dekappatated

Yeah as one of the people who recently joined I was hoping for informed commentary or insight — since I’m pretty witless about this kind of software — but it’s been pretty sad to see all the messianic nonsense take over. I think it might be futurology already.

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just_thisGuy t1_j5qqigp wrote

Reply to comment by GayHitIer in This subreddit has seen the largest increase of users in the last 2 months, gaining nearly 30k people since the end of November by _dekappatated

I frankly don’t think politics will matter or anything on Earth, I think AGI, augmented humans, ASI and whatever else will just move off world and do what they please. I don’t mean this in a bad way, but in a good way. The future is off world.

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pre-DrChad t1_j5qpl66 wrote

Reply to This subreddit has seen the largest increase of users in the last 2 months, gaining nearly 30k people since the end of November by _dekappatated

Not really a good thing imo

I feel like this sub will turn into futurology as it gets bigger. Reddit is full of depressed doomers

I’ve been subbed to this sub for almost 2 years now I think and following it without an account for over 4 years, and the quality has already gone down. The knowledgeable people have either left or their voice has been diluted by the influx of commenters

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GayHitIer t1_j5qpen6 wrote

Reply to comment by just_thisGuy in This subreddit has seen the largest increase of users in the last 2 months, gaining nearly 30k people since the end of November by _dekappatated

Sure the technology will be around there, but for it to change the world as we know, it will take some time for people and politics... don't even get me started with ethics, people will delay this as much as they can sadly.

Doesn't really matter cause LEV will probably also come out around that time to buy us more time.

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just_thisGuy t1_j5qp3g1 wrote

Reply to comment by GayHitIer in This subreddit has seen the largest increase of users in the last 2 months, gaining nearly 30k people since the end of November by _dekappatated

Much sooner than 2050-2060, I’m thinking around 2045 but it’s not a one year event or anything, my guess is by 2035 the changes will be almost magical already. I think the singularity will be a span starting in 2035 or so and lasting decades, it will be singularly up on singularity.

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GayHitIer t1_j5qkj72 wrote

Reply to This subreddit has seen the largest increase of users in the last 2 months, gaining nearly 30k people since the end of November by _dekappatated

People are beggining to realize the singularity is about to happen.

It will most likely occur around 2050-2060, around there this subreddit will skyrocket like the AI's intellience will.

If Moore's law and AI intelligence keep following the graph that is, but it is most likely going to go even faster than what we expect right now.

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