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[–] LordMayor@piefed.social 20 points 4 days ago (3 children)

"I think the secularists in Silicon Valley are filling the God-shaped hole in their heart with AGI," Palantir Chief Technology Officer Shyam Sankar said in an interview with the New York Times's Ross Douthat. "It's like, OK, the models get better. Why do you think that this cliff is going to happen where they somehow turn us into house cats?"

What the fuck is he even saying? Is he saying secularists are embracing AGI or are they afraid of it?

He also said that doomerism is a "fundraising shtick" where companies on the front lines of AI development "can say 'my technology is so powerful, it's going to lead to mass unemployment, so you better invest in me or you're going to be poor.'"

This is nonsensical. The mass unemployment predictions are really aimed at the AI company customers who think they would get richer with fewer employees. The potentially unemployed don’t have significant money to invest in these scams.

Where do they finds these people? But, also, fuck Business Insider and its shitty reporting.

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 3 points 3 days ago

What the fuck is he even saying?

Translation from TESCREAL to English: "I love huffing my own farts so much I stuck my head up my ass. Breathing an atmosphere of mostly methane hasn't impacted my reasoning ability in the slightest. Let me ask my LLM what 2 + 2 is. 5. See? No problemo!"

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

The first sounds like kirkagard and Sarte. People have deep unfilled need. Both can be summarize as "it as a god shaped whole".

Now people that thibk agi well be here soon and alter the world are treating it kind of like a god. Agi gives you meaning in life, gices you answer, etc etc.

The rest sound like mush brain

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm going in, hold me beer.

He's saying the atheists are worried that AGI will come about and destroy us, the world, whatever. Religious people aren't worried because they already believe in God and know AGI won't replace him.

Was I close?

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Close except:

Religious people aren't worried because they already believe in God and know ~~AGI won't replace him.~~ everything will be destroyed anyway with the rise of the antichrist.

[–] LordMayor@piefed.social 5 points 3 days ago

Fucked if I know. I really think these tech bros are mental.