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They’re going to nuke AI companies, AI researchers, AI funding grants, AI goodwill and set the field back 20 years, all through this stupid hubris
Lain on the Blockchain@CryptoCyberia
The AI scammers have depleted all their whacky, impossible, sci-fi claims, so now they're just falling back to the (completely undefined term) "AGI" being in the back room.
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@cath_menarion When search engines like Google stated using web crawling and page rank, did internet companies have to spend billions convincing consumers to spend hours every week using them?
I wasn’t around for directory search but something tells me they didn’t have to…
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This is called desperation. No one is going to pay for $250,000 worth of tokens per dev
TFTC@TFTC21
Jensen Huang: "If that $500,000 engineer did not consume at least $250,000 worth of tokens, I am going to be deeply alarmed. This is no different than a chip designer who says 'I'm just going to use paper and pencil. I don't think I'm going to need any CAD tools.'"
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Peter retweetledi
rich capitalists, surrounded by yes-men sycophants for years, have completely lost the ability to discern good ideas from bad ideas
AI models are the ultimate yes men, so they 1-shot CEOs
we’re watching “easy times create weak men” play out publicly on an individual level
Wes Winder@weswinder
the problem with marc, garry, elon, etc is everybody just wants their money so nobody in their life is willing to tell them when they are wrong because they are afraid of not getting money and they end up with a bunch of sycophantic yes men in their circles (powered by ai)
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Hi, I’m Marc Andreesseen.
My superficial idea of intelligence is someone who is avant garde, with polarizing and provocative ideas, which have historical and cultural merit. I mean, Steve Jobs was totally like that, and also all other great men, I think?
Sometimes, I like to go on podcasts and pull some of these random assertions out so that other people will think I’m like, definitely as smart and cool as those other guys.
Well, I mean, it worked almost every single time before, I don’t know what went wrong this time! Probably just butthurt midwestern opioid addicts, better double down…
David Senra@davidsenra
Great men of history had little to no introspection. The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself. @pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about: David: You don't have any levels of introspection? Marc: Yes, zero. As little as possible. David: Why? Marc: Move forward. Go! I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem and it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home. David: So I've read 400 biographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs and someone asked me what the most surprising thing I’ve learned from this was [and I answered] they have little or zero introspection. Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self. He just woke up and was like: I like building Walmart. I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts. And he just kept doing it over and over again. Marc: If you go back 400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective. All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy, and all the things that kind of result from that are, a kind of a manufacture of the 1910s, 1920s. Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff. The individual runs and does all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology. And then this kind of this kind of guilt based whammy kind of showed up from Europe. A lot of it from Vienna in 1910, 1920s, Freud and all that entire movement. And kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to basically second guess the individual. We need to criticize the individual. The individual needs to self criticize. The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell in the past. It never resonated with me.
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Even Maryland, conceived as a deliberately Catholic enclave, was mostly Protestant only 20 or so years after its founding. Our entire Constitution is fundamentally a Secular and Protestant document.
But I think the unity of faith and national culture was permanently severed after the wars of religion in the 16th and 17th centuries. Like Richelieu said, Man is immortal, his salvation is hereafter. The state has no immortality, its salvation is now or never. Henceforth culture is no longer shaped by a Legate, but a Legislature.
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I agree. This has likely been to America's material benefit, and certainly to her spiritual detriment.
Megan Basham@megbasham
Look, I have and love friends of other faiths, but the United States was built upon a Protestant ethic and outlook. Others have come and contributed to our culture, and I do not deny that. But to claim that America’s founding, its self-understood identity for the vast majority of its existence, had been anything other than Protestant is a lie.
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@grapesmoker The answer is baked into the context. To anyone else saying something like this would invite at least some jabs or mockery from friends, family, colleagues.
You’re dealing with someone so completely surrounded by sycophants that this basic framework ceases to exist.
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hard to imagine what the point of lying about something so thoroughly documented could be other than a pure show of dominance, like getting your ministers to agree that the moon is made of cheese just because you can
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@romanhelmetguy Why do people refuse to understand that man is the same species it was millennia ago?
Trying to pretend they were better, or lesser, than us today is fruitless. You’ll find as much in common with your ancestors of long past as differences with your siblings in the present.
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Great men of the past were both more introspective and more action-oriented than people today. You have to remember the past was a slower world. And today everyone just does phone.
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@cath_menarion I hear more introspection and critical thinking at closing hour in the local pub than between these two
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I remember when the media was skeptical of tech CEOs instead of treating them like gurus
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
Billionaire Marc Andreessen says he has "zero" introspection, and that the idea itself is a modern invention.
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@_ma_thusal_em @vxunderground C’est une question de
1. Fournir une forme d’assurance qu’un compte est un humain et pas un robot , ce qui est impératif pour les exigences publicitaires
2. Assurer que les travaux difficile de mise en œuvre logicielle soient effectués par Apple et non par eux même
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Yeah, so basically it turns out Meta has been heavily lobbying online age verification laws. They've lobbied over $2,000,000,000 to politicians in form of grants and donations.
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🐝🇬🇷@bee_fumo
someone traced the all the non profit grants for the age verification laws old.reddit.com/r/linux/commen…
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@GoeringEckardt Ja, denn Deutschland hat ein sehr hohes Risiko für ein Erdbeben der Stärke 9,0 und einen Tsunami.
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Ein strategischer Fehler ist 15 Jahre nach Fukushima Atomkraft wieder als Zukunft zu verkaufen. Dabei wissen wir: teuer, langsam, riskant. Die Atommüllfrage bleibt ungeklärt. Europa braucht keine Atom-Renaissance – sondern Tempo bei Erneuerbaren. Das wäre Energiesouveränität.
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Peter retweetledi
Alright, since you asked:
Imagine a room. Four walls, a floor, and a ceiling. No windows. There’s a slot in one of the walls. You’re inside the room, and your job is simple (if a bit laborious). Every day, people outside the room pass notes written in Chinese through the slot, and you respond to those notes.
Now, you don’t know a bit of Chinese, but you have a (VERY thick) rulebook that tells you exactly which Chinese symbols to pass back through the slot in response to the notes from outside. If you see symbol group A followed by B on a note, you look up the rule, which tells you to hand back symbols X, Y, and Z in response. You just shape-match, follow the rules, and pass back notes that mean absolutely nothing to you… because you still don’t know any Chinese.
The people outside the room never see you, and they think they’re communicating with someone in Chinese because you pass the Turing test with flying colors. You get REALLY good at using that rulebook.
That, folks, is John Searle’s Chinese Room thought experiment—and it’s also a description of Claude, Grok, Copilot, ChatGPT, etc.
Claude is not experiencing anxiety. It’s also not thinking or communicating in any way.
Armond Boudreaux@armondboudreaux
I’m BEGGING everyone to learn about Leibniz’s mill argument and John Searle’s Chinese Room thought experiment.
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Peter retweetledi
No matter how complex computations get, switching tiny on-off signals back and forth cannot produce subjective experience or self-awareness, not even in theory. So whenever an AI bro blabbers about nearing consciousness, they’re running a psyop to inflate their company’s value.
Polymarket@Polymarket
BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.
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@feelsdesperate “Neither the U.S. nor Israel care about the law”
I don’t think of myself as a grammar Nazi but just reading her shitty attempt at forming a negation within an English sentence left a bad taste in my mouth. I think third worlders should be prohibited from learning English.
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Lmao even the most tedious milquetoast libs are tiring of the leftist third worldism in their coalition.
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He was an honorable prince of the realm who pledged himself to a lowly hedge knight, and in this house, Baelor Targaryen is a hero, END OF STORY!
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@macrocephalopod What the fuck are you taking about? Literally anybody can be a software engineer if they're capable of doing it. It's the least gatekept high earning job in history.
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I think a lot of software “engineers” are gonna have to face up to the fact that the job was fundamentally not that hard in the first place and a lot of the complexity was not inherent to the problem domain but was only there for purposes of gatekeeping and job security.
Thorsten Ball@thorstenball
"I am the bottleneck now" Few more thoughts
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