Oh come on, no one who would consider themselves to be a computer scientist thinks that LLMs will lead to AGI.
this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2026
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Why go all the way to China? Plenty of data centers to bomb right here in the US.
This is just the kind of dumb shit I'd expect out of someone who has been highly placed within the US Government.
As much as I am all for the destruction of data centers, can we not find a civil solution like having governments create malware that destroys the contents of the server and then shreds the bytes instead?
I was also thinking there aren't enough wars
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Can we stop pretending Obama and his cabinet were the good guts, yet?
He is a war criminal like all the other presidents
It's kinda silly to call any complex political party "the good/bad guys". Compared to the current administration of the US Obama looks like a shining knight on a unicorn. Geopolitically they did some damage too though. Libya says hi. All in all it's just too complicated to break it down to good/bad.
Either way this is just some guy who's speculating about AGI and it sounds like the usual AI company ad headline about how scary good and important their technology is. Is it though? AGI by next year, bro, we swear. Just one more datacenter, bro. China is winning the race, bro, please. A few more trillions and we'll get there, bro.
It's kinda silly to call any complex political party "the good/bad guys".
The US is not complex, if actions are taken to preserve the empire over the wellbeing of all, they are bad people.
US Obama looks like a shining knight on a unicorn.
Only because, unlike Donald, he didn't open his mouth about all the shitty things he was doing every hour of every day.
Obama was just as much of a motherfucker as Donald. He was just smart enough to make his pretty, generic speeches and otherwise keep his fucking mouth shut.
Evey admin committed horrible atrocities ti take other people's resources. They were all rotten.
It's the successor that's funny the heavy lifting tbh. Seems very sane I'm comparison.
Also: 'good guts' is a very good typo