by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
It seems to me the crux of the “AGI” debate is reasoning. To truly have a “mind in a box” you need for the “mind” in question to have human-level reasoning. So it not only can do some advanced thinking that a human might be able to, but it has the *reasoning* ability to know, hey, maybe not turn all the matter in the universe into paperclips.
Now, I will admit that I’ve been using Claude 3 and it’s been at times…spooky. It definitely SEEMS to have some sort of basic reasoning abilities. But I dunno. It could be that I’m reading into things something that is not there.
But I do wonder what happens when we get close enough to AGI that most code is written by…AGI. All those fucking smug tech bros who tell people me to “learn to code” are going to have to learn…how to write.
It will definitely be interesting to see what is going to happen with Universal Basic Income. If we reach AGI, or something close to it, and the entire profession of “coding” is wiped out, then, oh boy. You could see a bunch of well educated tech bros join the ranks of MAGA and then we have a fucking anti-tech fascist movement on our hands.
But it will be, in general, interesting to see how things work out.
