"Processing power & memory are increasing all the time! How can we not have mechanical superintelligence within a few decades?"

"Parameter count & model capabilities are increasing all the time! How can we not have mechanical superintelligence before the decade is out?"

Yeah, & if, 30 years ago, you were pitted against a technopessimist, you'd come out tops if you applied that to technologies that already existed in some form. Probably there's a lesson there re: extrapolating from state-of-the-art ML to the near future

Whereas Kurzweil's futurism, as I understand it, amounts to "number go up"

I think the fact that, prior to being an AI doomer, he undertook a naive attempt at creating a self-improving "seed AI" is instructive. On one hand, he's blinkered & arrogant, but on the other you can't say he hasn't given it a great deal of thought

She really is an exhibitionist in every sense of the word

I don’t even remember where I came across this version

Oh wow
That's a stunning rendition

Nobody:
Absolutely no one:
Not a living soul:

Lord British's throne room:
youtu.be/AbjgjHQa3T&t...

Yeah
And the use of Rule Britannia detached from any kind of British nationalism makes it even funnier, for my money

Even IV, the one that introduced all the virtue stuff, has John Lennon & Short Round as NPCS!

But then this is a franchise whose second installment is basically an extended joke-cum-Time Bandits rippff

(in all seriousness, I did finally taste good turkey last year, so I own that it can be done!)

This is enlightenment

"Fuck off with your whining! Don't you know about the Patriarchy?" is not exactly a prescription for healthier male emotions!

I don't like the prospect of encountering one in the wild, but I can see why the Egyptians worshipped a god with the head of one

Woke neoreactionary who tries to increase the amount of microplastics in the environment because he believes it will feminize the general population & reduce violent crime