I'm done. I'm f***ing done.
In a Nutshell
The speaker rejects the concept of AGI entirely, arguing it lacks clear definitions, real problem-solving value, and any path beyond current LLMs' fundamental limits with context and understanding. He dismisses hype around future progress as propaganda, insisting LLMs are statistical tricks that only succeed by fooling CEOs into replacing workers, not by achieving intelligence. From now on, he will judge the technology strictly on its present capabilities without extrapolation or benefit of the doubt.
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At in-laws house on Sunday with food and family including two children, the speaker sat in the corner swiping on phone after having the thought at 2:00 a.m. the night before about whether AGI is possible. Posted a members-only video confessing to entertaining the idea that AGI could be possible in theory and is an engineering problem solvable in a couple hundred years.
After reading about AGI and intelligence from the moment of waking until going to sleep, decided to reject the concept entirely. Dipped one foot into the cult of AGI by accident and is now rejecting it completely.
David Deutsch, father of quantum computing and author of The Beginning of Infinity, does not believe animals are intelligent or conscious. The speaker found this position flabbergasted while trying to determine if a Python script can be generally intelligent.
If arguments are being made that animals aren't intelligent, then conversations about whether computers are intelligent become meaningless. There are no definitions for any of the terms being claimed to exist or be possible.
AGI is characterized as materialist propaganda wet dream. The speaker spent 12 hours reading about the topic and became exhausted, with wife asking to put down phone and acknowledge her mother while focused on determining whether intelligence is possible.
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