I suspect we're both right, just on different occasions.

To the semi-literate a few paragraphs of text represent a significant investment of their time.

I leave the brick in my car. I can still scroll if I want, but I have to intentionly get up and move to do it. Most of the time I decide it isn't worth it.

It cut back usage like 99%.

That percentage shrinks every day. Someday soon it will be small enough to eliminate most of their copyright protections.

They are, presumably, competant enough to know this.

An increasing percentage of people view optimism, hope, or excitement as childish or worse. Anytime you focus on anything positive they leap from the shadows to dance on your joy. It must feel nice squishing between their miserable toes or something.

Still, I appreciate your enthusiasm and hope to see you build something really cool. The future will be made by the enthusiastic, and if they don't want to come along they can wait in the car. I bet they wear blue jeans to the beach.

I was very excited the first time I saw a connectome as well. Years ago I managed to get most of openworm running and connected to some Lego Mindstorms to let the worm roll around my house. I'm not even sure the connectome was finished at that time.

Honestly, I barely had any idea what I was doing and we didn't have AI tools so I was never really sure what I wired to what. I did manage to hook... something to the ultrasound sensor and... another thing to the wheels so that when the sensor was triggered it would back up.

What blew my mind was the realization that these weird hybrid critters were probably the first true immortals. Now that we have a full connectome, who will bother with another? Students will probably just keep instantiating copies of this one to tinker with forever.

The law will change. Probably soon.

Is it worth the cost? Yup.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_month#Types

Diabetics are already more prone NAION. This studies contribution was to show that diabetics on GLP-1's are MORE prone. It does not show that the general population is more prone when taking GLP-1's.

I didn't check to see if other studies prove that.

First define "knowing" and "AGI" in a way that excludes machines, doesn't exclude many humans, and isn't just tautologically restating the prior belief that "only humans think" with different phrasing.

None of the critics ever can. Worse, most attempts exclude entire classes of human being when they try.

Most of the concerns raised here are not about intelligence though. They're about Human intelligence.

We keep anthropomorphizing the machines, but the truth is the do not "want" the things we want and there is no reason they should, even in theory.

People just suck at imagining anything that might have different goals. See 'dark forest theory' for an example of the same logical flaw applied on a cosmic scale.

I, politely, corrected some people who were posting factually inaccurate anti-AI misinformation.

I was mocked and insulted, called transphobic by someone I had no way of knowing was Trans, accused of mansplaining, and called misogynistic by people I didn't know (or care to know) were women. None of them bothered to discuss the original issue.

It's like arguing about geo-politics with the dude who sleeps in the dumpster behind the liquor store. Even if I win... What was the point?

I speculated that they seem to be adopting some kind of AI based audio cleanup tool that has the same effect, since I first noticed it when one of my favorite Youtubers mentioned they were trying out a new AI audio tool. I think your guess is probably the explanation I was looking for.

Thanks!

I found out the hard way though that some modern audio denoisers/etc use something similar. One of my favorite youtubers audio has the exact same audio signature, even though it's clearly not AI generated. Eventually he mentioned that he was using a new AI cleanup tool and it clicked. Since then I've noticed it creeping into more and more videos. Linus Tech Tips uses it on some videos, for example.

So even for people who are sensitive to it, the false positive rate is now probably very high. It's making me a little crazy that other people don't seem to be bothered by it.

The answer society mostly settled on is representative democracy.

You appoint qualified candidates via consensus, and then give them the microphone and some measure of control as long as the consensus stays strong. This is sort of what we have now with influencer culture.

The flaw has always been human nature. It turns out that half of all people are of below average intelligence and they consequently make bad decisions. Especially if the smarter half use them as pawns to assume control, which is what US politics has become.

Once the Morlocks and the Eloi have settled into their roles the entire thing falls apart and democracy dies screaming.