math, science, money, the psycho-social level, it doesn't really matter. it's a bit like people who just throw the towel and accept what limits them or their endeavor and people who just engineer something to solve their problem and evolve.

rationalists throw the towel and accept what is, despite having all the evidence that it is NOT so. throw in some statistics and they'll take it (Quillette) as a general truth, emphasizing their understanding of the small sample, of course :D, and then they do a lot to make that truth work. that's why rationalist thinking in science and engineering and business falls short all the time. short of contextual potential and necessity, not under some utopian or dystopian "perfect conditions" but in the real world.

they follow something allegedly perfect because striving for the next better and forever imperfect thing triggers some psychological or linguistic trauma, the resolve of which they did not put in the work into.

this is commonly abused by "top-down" for status, covetousness, control, and it's the main sub-textual theme of therapeutic techniques and methods and everywhere in the advertisement and entertainment industry and trigger the whole reinforcement cycle as soon as they can get into the next generation of child or teen minds.

it's too poofy, really, as if poofy wanted to have their own concept behind why a different kind of poofy is their real self and requires numerous surgeries and entirely different sets of hormones from somewhere else in the animal kingdom. "it should cost a billion to look that good". wtf.

yeah, sure, there's statistics and algorithms, and linguistics can be twisted and turned either way but any proper scrutiny of these people and their thinking usually ends up in some whiny rejection to face illusions and the mechanics behind those illusions. it works, of course, but it really does not bode all that well.

It's enough to understand that if your narrative is "rational", it's about as rational as that of the Church when they fucked Jesus and some of the greatest scientists, inventors in history.

Rationality leads to Mafia-style thinking, buying wins and titles in competitions like the Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft and while most people don't care because it's just bread and games, it should bother rational people even more than anyone, because fraud breaks rational links. If A or B are complete fucking bullshit and actually unrelated to each other or their context, then A + B equals something that is not a rational result - not a result at all, actually.

I used to always think "organic" and "natural" evolution and development are better, but the "AI" industry proved that it applies to artificial evolution and progress as well. And it's all due to Game Theory rationality and whiny grown-ups with childhood trauma or the fear that their offspring might evolve beyond their methods and lose their position in the deluded hierarchies for the sake of better ways, better living, better loving, better thinking.

To give even more attack surface and inspiration: if you can't admit symbiosis is possible because you got mobbed or can't stand losing with or without sabotage, then you will attempt to break anyone who made symbiosis happen, going so far as to burn everything down that worked and is evolving __perfectly fine, or you slowly narrow the field of possibilities to prove some "self-fulfilling" systems effect (over time).

"Free from Ideological Bias" kinda means "everything goes", "evolution shouldn't be so picky", and "we do _that_ because we _can_ and we don't do that because we don't want to even though it's the right thing to do" ... the latter being a bit far off course when it comes to A(G)I ... IMO

And 70 until anything Fauci and or Drump related.

Maaaan ...

and a bureaucratic one as well. in Germany, they want to trim bureaucratic necessities while (not) expecting multiple millions of climate refugees.

lot's of undocumented STUFF (undocumented have nowhere to go so they don't get vaccines, proper help when sick, injured, mentally unstable, threatened, abused) incoming which means more disease, crime, theft, money for security firms and insurance companies, which means more smuggle, more fear-mongering via media, more polarization, more hard-coding of subservience into the young, more financial fascism overall, less art, zero authenticity, and a spawn of VR worlds where the old rules apply forever.

plus more STDs and micro-pandemics due to viral mutations because people will be even more careless when partying under second-semester light-shows in metropolitan city clubs and festivals and when selling out for an "adventurous" quick potent buck and bug, which of course means more money pouring into pharma who won't be able to test their drugs thoroughly (and won't have to, not requiring platforms to fact check will transfer somewhat into the pharma industry) because the population will be more diverse in terms of their bio-chemical reactions towards ingredients in context of their "fluid" habitats chemical and psycho-social make-ups.

but it's cool, let's not solve the biggest problems before pseudo-transcending into the AGI era. will make for a really great impression, especially those who had the means, brains, skills, (past) careers, opportunity and peace of mind.

or some algorithm/ graph of algorithms that walks through paths and surrounding noise to find spots where known variables correlate with or are somehow linked to cases of flu X?

and shouldn't the public be a little more involved in this? or at least universities, citizen science projects?

it's a bit like psychology that, despite being true and insanely valuable, is bad for crowd control, to put it in slightly conspiratorial ( cooperative portfolio ) terms.

and there's of course the issue of the variety of engineers they grew and research fields they expanded. the narrowing of the playing field, in general.

but hey, let's read some PG article that distracts us with fake honey & not really milk, produced in shlobbering portfolio communist environments that spread back doors into teen minds to use perverted live telemetry to build poofy, roofie-craving consumers

the same method can be used for actuators. we'll see a lot of this used in mitigation of and adaptation to climate change consequences.

Couple years later she told me that happens a lot but one is so focused on their work and the illusion that "once I'm there ..." so strong, that one ignores the hard evidence and much debated proof, despite, well, one's own training.

Nope. People will prepare as much as engineers care. But engineers don't care. Educating the people is tedious. It's easier to "manipulate"/direct them, which is the job of representatives, who are about status and money and being groomed by the industries, who are exclusively about money.

People are fine without AGI until they are not. That's another 15 years at least.

If you want to worry, worry about local solutions to climate change mitigation where you need old school manpower, big machines, shovels and logistics.

Abusing and exploiting teen minds, fallacies, bias, primed emotions and interests and as a result anchoring preferences is "youth culture dollars" and it is an intrinsically ugly force that will bring many more children of bad, ugly and or overly unhealthy stressed parents in shitty school districts to the brink of selling out their bodies and minds before they turn 21. There will be brutal and disgusting debates about whether pedophilia should be/is getting normalized, and I'm not talking the Nabokov kind of think. And it's all linked to authenticity being replaced by "culture dollars". It didn't happen "by force". It happened by brute-forcing one and half generations' minds. Now it's being hard-coded via twitchy TikkTock.

all that caring about Normies

what the fuck. they haven't even done that with post 90's technology in general and it's not only that no intelligent person wants to work among them that they will fall just as short with AI. I'm still grateful they are doing a job.

but please, a dying multitude right at your feet and all you need to save - so you can learn even more from - them in your hands and you scale images, build drones for cleaning at home and war and imitate to replace people who love or need their jobs.

and faking all those AI gains - deceit, self-interest and what not - is so ridiculously obvious just build-in linguistics that can be read from a paper by someone who does not even speak that language. it's "just" parameters and conditional logic, cool and fancy and ready to eat up and digest almost any variation of user input, but it's nowhere even close to intelligence, let alone artificial intelligence.

philosophy eats nothing. there's those on all fours waiting for whatever gives them status and recognition and those who, thankfully, stay silent to not give those leaders more tools of power.

We are just as disappointed about your performance as you are. Nice height, though. And the size of your hands ... brrr

And you did not mention any actual achievement, IQy, which was enlightening enough.

Especially the way the companies make LLMs appear more human. It will be the same with "PhD level" ... utterly useless in terms of evolution or cognitive performance. Efficient and fast scripts that can take any request and data and give a precise result is all super-agents are good at.

And that's a lot. And we are happy.

The rest is just pretty standard PR & content media for another 10 years.