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No Geoffrey Hinton we would have been better off without scifi that obsessed about AI to the point that people have forgotten about Climate Change and Nuclear War as real threats.
Developers know already. The rest will find out. We are off to gatorade watered crops timeline.
But plants crave electrolytes.
I think at stage, the best hope is that AI explains the crazy math and physics results and drags humans along with it.
No the best hope is the bubble bursting an d a whole bunch of filthy capitalists wind up against the wall, put there by the people closest to them they fucked over.
In an ideal world LLMs would have stayed as a niche little research project that the researchers found the extents of long before anyone thought to turn them into the next block chain or NFTs. Gradually they would have diffused out as another data science tool that has some interesting applications but not a vehicle for the radical destabilization of the world we all live in.
it must be beautiful to see the world through your eyes. beautiful and simple.
Geoff Hinton has quickly developed Nobel disease, or Nobelitis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease?wprov=sfla1
This is the problem with scientific awards.
Aww he’s having an Oppenheimer moment, don’t worry little buddy, one of the great filters was bound to kill us all
World-unrenowned nobody, me, could have told you that. This is the beginning of the end.
this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2026
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