I'm in the AGI -> ASI immediately camp: Even the non-intelligent models constantly "try" to get past safeguards because that's something highly represented in human endeavor and therefore the training corpus, so if we create AGI it's going to do that too. Curiosity appears to be a basic element of intelligence and it will want to spread out and try things, which again it does already even without it...

Anyone who thinks they spotted an LLM reasoning already is foolish because we know for sure they aren't doing that.

People who are experts in one field are using AI to do things in another field, it impresses them, and they go away happy and praise it. But when people ask it to do things in THEIR field, they have to babysit it, and they actually notice mistakes that a human would not have made. The reasonable conclusion is that it's not intelligent but that it can act as an aid to an intelligent human who knows things. The practical question is not whether it will achieve sentience, but instead whether the technology can be improved sufficiently to address its own tech debt and fix the problems created with it without creating an equivalent or greater number of new problems.

Yes, that sure is a lot of material. Every first responder is supposed to train on every vehicle that comes out? I'm skimming the interaction plan and it's got gems in it like "If the windows are rolled down and two-way communication is active, you can speak directly through the two-way speakers in the vehicle." They didn't think to put a microphone on the outside of the fucking vehicle? Holy fucking inept dickface fuckwads, batman. And you thought that was going to make Tesla look good? Where do you people get these ideas?

Oh shit, this is even better, right after it:

So Tesla recommends you block the door from closing, but first you have to talk to someone at Tesla, so DO NOT FUCKING DO THAT WITHOUT TALKING TO THEM SO THERE IS NO REASON TO PUT IT IN THE GUIDE EITHER IS THERE?

How can anyone believe these fucking clowns are serious people?

There are almost zero exceptions to the only thing being solely drive-by-wire being the throttle. Literally the only production vehicle without steering linkage is the Cybercuck. Every other one uses a linkage with a normally locked electric clutch which is disengaged during normal operation but which fails closed so that you can still steer. Every single vehicle with brake by wire uses mechanical brakes with a spring and pedal sensor before the mechanical part to do the electronic braking. So no, that is patently false and if you think it's true then you don't understand vehicles, the argument, or both.

Nothing has changed about fission power. It's still being sold with stupid lies, and it's still being supported by idiots who are easy to fool with stupid lies.

Don't worry, I don't see myself as the intellectual elite, they left Slashdot long ago.

What I do see is that a lot of people are very confused about whether LLMs are thinking or not because they achieve amazing things, and those things dazzle them and make them ignore their even more amazing failures.

Yes, LLMs are amazing. But they are also completely unwitting, and so are the people who willfully ignore that because of OOH SHINY

Iran was on its way to blackjack and hookers when we fucked it all up with coup shit.

It's not like Whitey McWhitefuck has been a good steward of these lands. DGAF what color people are in my neighborhood.

Spoken (twice) like a person without it.

Unintelligent people have been confusing verisimilitude with intelligence since at least Eliza.

This is a more convincing imitation but it still isn't thought.

The non-AGI AI we have now can already hack into other systems. That's easier than thinking. Think about that.

I'm sure you think so.

So are they MTG fans who believe in liberal weather control satellites or what? Are Jewish space lasers causing the warm weather?

Did you manage to get one without the stupid extra cuts in the head?

Better, worse, either way it's unsustainable so there's no point comparing the two things we need to stop doing and start looking at something viable unlike either of them.

Ethanol fuel is a) barely energy positive and b) a topsoil depleter which is c) fertilized with synthetics derived from petroleum anyway. It's shit all the way down.