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by andyjohnson0 53 days ago
No. I think it'll go all the way and we'll end-up with something approximating agi.

Reason is that the tech is hooked-up to the dying husk of late capitalism like an iv line, and nation state military competition will force it to work. I don't see it being restrained much, unfortunately.

So dotcoms are the wrong analogy. Computational intelligence is like the internet - its an everything technology. People (like me) won't like it, but I think it will be in everything. Peculiar alien minds are just gonna spill out of this thing.