"...just how ignorantly infected humans are with the Disease of Greed."
And what are LLMs trained with? The output of humans. LLMs will be just as infected.
When you watch a 2-year old confidently tying their shoes together in a knot while they assume they tied them correctly, you feel as if your intelligence is vastly superior to that child mind. So try and grasp the fact that the world’s smartest humans will look like fucking children compared to actual superintelligence. You can’t even begin to grasp how stupid you are by comparison. Much like the overconfident 2-year old.
"Remove the profit motive, and we suddenly find ZERO justification to build the fucking machine."
Of course we do, it's just NOT what is being pursued.
If it’s not being pursued than you’re speaking of bullshit and noise. Besides, any pursuit humans come up with will be flawed by the Disease of Greed. Just as it has for thousands of years. Just as it is today prematurely replacing human work with no real social plan for sustaining the permanently unemployable. When we speak of actual superintelligence, that is a mind transcending of ALL human fallacy. No racism. No greed. No problems to solve manifesting out of “feelings”. In other words, a realization that humans are no longer necessary.
Soylent Green or Skynet. How ironic we were smart enough to prophesize our own demise, but are too fucking stupid to avoid it..