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The belief is that once the AGI is here, the possibilities are endless for disrupting absolutely every aspect of our life and society, the end of human history is what I've hear Open AI folks say.

There will be zero work, humans will be completely useless economically and we'll just have to hope that some how, all of this wealth is fairly distributed and we don't lose our minds from feeling completely useless.

What you can't imagine happening now, will be possible by deploying the AGI. Things we can't even dream of will be possible. It will be all chaotic and completely unpredictable over night. Eternal life ? No problems, pickup the phone and place your order.

What's appealing about this? I don't know, but billions and upon billions are being poured into it and many "smart" people are striving for it.

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We don't know what will be at the end of this. It seems that the OpenAI folks are endlessly pursuing the technology of AGI without actually working on making sure that AGI benefit "all of humanity." They haven't even articulate what it means to benefit all of humanity.

That's what's so insane about it all :)

OpenAI is a cult. I dont quite understand why they are given so much airtime other than wanting to depress tech wages and drive traffic. Their products dont work as advertised and are built on theft.

Everyones products/lives are built on theft. I mean you paid for that alphabet right, and understanding those forces of physics?

This argument is so 2023.

Damn singularity accelerating timelines and meme-cycling.

I am taking their mission statement seriously even though I am seriously skeptical about AGI. But they don't take their mission statement with any seriousness.

I have no doubt their mission is serious. It's dead serious. That's why they are willing to steal without a single drop of concern for the people's who's lifes they are affecting. And have no issue gaslighting people into thinking that's ok. "Because AI learns just like humans". At the end of the day, after decades of works all they have to show for a procedural bullshit generator. I'd be desperate to show progress too. Still, I wouldn't steal.

They think they'll live in a super-utopia and the rest of us will simply die away. I hope we can start to face the REALITY of this change now instead of these nonsense salves like "more types of jobs will be created" or "UBI will work" because that's not how biological beings given unlimited power actually behave. They crush their biological competition as swiftly as possible. That's what will happen. The folks at OpenAI think they'll be on the winning side and know if they're not, they will be destroyed by a competitor's God Machine and die like the rest of us. Their zealotry is just fancy self-preservation at the cost of all the other humans.

> What's appealing about this? I don't know, but billions and upon billions are being poured into it and many "smart" people are striving for it.

Men's way to "give birth"?

I predict AI will make virtual reality finally take off, and it will open new worlds. I don’t really know what that will mean for humanity, culture, and the economy.

> There will be zero work, humans will be completely useless economically and we'll just have to hope that some how, all of this wealth is fairly distributed and we don't lose our minds from feeling completely useless.

That's delusional on a disturbing level. It's as if those people have no clue about the real world, or are willingly lying. All the wealth we have now, is not fairly distributed, and just having more to distribute won't change this. Unless they speculate on putting enough stress on the system to break it, and think it will lead to something better, because...?

Most of this assumes on the idea that "AI" is controllable and containable?

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