Cool so just fuck all the people that don’t, right?

It seems like you have never lived outside of a city? And I’m not talking about a suburb, I mean a rural area. You can’t make those “walkable”. And you can’t just force people to move to cities.

When have rich people ever tried to keep a technology to themselves? It doesn't make sense on its face. The only things that are exclusive to rich people are very rare and supply can't be increased, like real estate, precious gems, supercars, etc.

>For all we know if things like posthumanism etc. become real they might as well just charge an unreasonable price and only the select few will get it

Why don't only rich people have electric cars or sweet gaming computers or literally any other new technology? Because they want to make money and they can make more money and be more rich by selling that shit to the public. It is called capitalism.

I don’t understand the comment about not having children. If they think AI is going to destroy the world why are they working so hard on it?

Protein folding, n-body simulation, really any type of simulation, network analysis, anything in cryptography or that involves matrices. Basically anything that isn’t “off the top of your head” and requires an iterative approach or multiple steps to solve.

Except no, because they currently scale quadratically with the number of “steps” they have to think. Maybe we can fix that but it’s not obvious that it is possible to fix without a completely new paradigm.

No, ASI is not capable of everything. There are just fundamental limits to computation like there are limits to physics. It can still do a lot though, there are only a few things we know (or conjecture) lower bounds about. It just happens to be that cryptography is entirely designed to resist even incredibly advanced computers.

Here is where it becomes obvious that you don’t understand how LLMs work. They have a fixed depth evaluation circuit, which means that they take the same amount of time to respond to the prompt 2+2=? as they do to “simulate this complex protein folding” or “break this encryption key”. There are fundamental limits on the computation that a LLM can do which prevent it from being ASI. In CS terms, anything which is not computable by a constant depth circuit (many important things) cannot be computed by a LLM.

We “as a species” can’t even agree that things like human rights are a good idea. We can’t even stop killing each other for petty reasons. We can wait a thousand years and there will never be a consensus about something as complicated as AI.

Folks that are optimistic about AI hope it will actually be morally better than we are. We need AI to save us from ourselves.

Good thing the EM leakage from CPUs is like 5 orders of magnitude lower than you would need to transmit the length of a room.

How is it making arbitrarily EM fields with no network card?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_gap_(networking)

So weird, I was just thinking about this. We went there ever year for Christmas when I was a kid.

How would it be able to escape if it was airgapped? More likely someone would stupidly let it out.

The vast majority of people on this sub, and Reddit in general, are not capable of appreciating art. That is just becoming more obvious now because of AI art generation, and it is infuriating a lot of people.

I'm not even an artist, but what is starting to make me upset about this whole thing is that people look at DALLE or whatever and go, "haha artists out of a job" which seriously underappreciates what artists do. If you made a painting where you couldn't remember how many fingers a person was supposed to have you would fail out of art school. The fact that people are saying DALLE can do as good as a real artist just shows that the vast majority don't appreciate art in the first place.

That's not to say that it won't improve, it definitely will. But its not there right now, and a huge percentage of people around here think that it is which is so fucking cringe.

>The way it can already reason through academic papers is pretty astonishing

Not sure what you are talking about here. Do you have a link? ChatGPT is very bad at understanding more than the surface level of academic topics.

Wut

I said it in another reply, but there are some types of cryptography that are information-theoretically secure, meaning no matter how much computation you have you provably cannot break them. These will continue to be secure against singularity AI.

As to the rest of cryptography, it depends on the outcome of the P vs. NP question. It is conceivable that an ASI could prove that P = NP and break all computationally-bound cryptography. But if P != NP, as most mathematicians believe, then there will be some encryption schemes that cannot be broken^(*) no matter how smart you are or how much computation you have access to. A subset of our current ciphers may be broken, i.e. an ASI could find an efficient algorithm for factoring and break RSA, but we have enough of them based on different problems that are conjectured to be difficult that at least some of them would turn out to truly be intractable.

For example, suppose that breaking AES is truly outside of P. Then, according to the Landauer limit, the most efficient computer physically possible would take about 1% of the mass energy of the milky way galaxy to break one AES-256 ciphertext. Note, this is an underestimate because I assume it only takes one elementary computation per key attempt when in reality it is a lot more than that.

^(*)This is a small oversimplification, there is the possibility that we live in a world where P != NP but we still don't have any useful cryptography. See Russel Impagliazzo's famous paper "A personal view of average-case complexity."

This is a bad take. There are many limits, physical and computational, that prevent even a singularity AI from doing “anything it wants.” We know, for instance, that the one-time pad is an informational-theoretically unbreakable encryption scheme, regardless of how smart you are or how much computation you have.

Moreover, if P != NP like we believe, there are other encryption schemes that can’t be broken even with a computer the size of the galaxy. These are fundamental limits.

Neat.

I think you may be having a psychotic break, friend. I have no idea what you are talking about.

>Do you even know what computers are used for?

What is a computer? I'm posting this from a coconut that I hacked into a radio.

Sort of, but look how long it takes to train these models. Even if it can self improve it still might take years to get anywhere.