“AI being smarter than a human is impossible because there are a bunch of ways to be intelligent and no particularly special way to be generally intelligent, i.e., it’s not a scale.”
the argument from people who think AGI is impossible
ChatGPT was released while I was in the middle of my final solitary meditation retreat while training at the Monastic Academy. I remember walking on the path back to my room when my partner at the time excitedly shared about its emergence and the way it was taking the world by storm. She knew I would be intrigued.
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Most AI backlash is economic anxiety coated in a veneer of social justice. Alfalfa farming consumes 19 times the water that data centers do; there’s no sound environmental reason to boycott Claude but not GPS. When people say “AI is a moral stain,” they really mean: I am scared that I won’t be able to pay my bills.