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"If we can just make an AI that can overthrow humanity it won't matter how much cash we burn!"
Anyone else have this unsettling feeling we are in the hibernation period of "If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies"? The post containment breach but pre openly operating phase. Is there some force pushing more resources towards AI than is rational? Is this bubble human greed and stupidity, or is there something else at play?
I thought about it for a while and decided, nah. It's easy to dismiss offhand that these people are just stupid, but if you think about it a bit longer, these people aren't just stupid, they are really, really, really, stupid. The model architecture is bad, the data is poisoned, improvement is O(data^2), and performance gains stalled in 2024. No AGI in sight or even a viable method of getting there.
They looked at these charts and thought, the others spent a lot of money, then made a lot of money. If we spend a LOT of money, we'll make EVEN MORE!
Why don't we put up the WeWork or MoviePass charts hmmm?