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really liked this @himself.bsky.social piece. discursive inversion going on right now where, within ai circles, especially on x, "believing in the imminent machine god" is considered the grounded/serious position while "being skeptical of imminence of machine god" is the laughable freak position

programmablemutter.comMachine god metaphors eat your brainThere are other ways of thinking about AI

22/9/26, 3:50 pm7 reposts45 likes

Max Read

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22 Sept

have been very interested in the way that "RSI" has replaced "AGI" rhetorically as the any-minute-now landmark. on one hand, "RSI" at least somewhat more definable/observable than "AGI." on the other, its main function is as a more technical-sounding standin for eschatological singularity

Max Read

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22 Sept

similar to what henry is saying about metaphors, deadlines/thresholds/singularities—even if the deadline is to a "technical" "milestone" like "RSI" rather than some mystical property like "AGI"—radically simplifies and encloses thinking

Max Read

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22 Sept

many of the same people insisting that RSI is around the corner and will change everything are the ones who now say that the long-threatened status "AGI" has already been achieved. ok, but... even if we grant that, it seems more like continuity than singularity to me. why will RSI be different?