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I am not against AGI, just the method and the players we have getting there. Instead of a curiosity to find intelligence, we just have rabid managers and derailed billionaires funding a race to … what? I don’t think even they know beyond a few hype words in their vocab and a buzz to bullshit powerpoint presentation.

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This is just the world we live in now for everything. Remember .com? Web3? Crypto? And now AI. Hell, really going back in the past you see dumb shit like this happening with tulips.

We're lucky to have managed to progress in spite of how greedy we are.

The luck may be coming to an end. The last two have serious misuses. Crypto’s best killer apps thus far have been rug-pulls, evading governance of criminal financial activity and corruption. AGI would, today, be likely be called into service to tighten authoritarian grips.

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