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Connor Leahy on AGI and Cognitive Emulation

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The Dangers of Magic in Machine Learning

Magic is an observer dependent on not the things look magically. The things we call magic only look like magic because we don't understand them. So similarly, what ultimately is magic is a cheeky way of saying we don't know these systems. We have we're dealing with aliens that we don't understands and we can't put any bounds on or we can't control. And yeah. Like you truly cannot imagine the like sheer depravity of what people type into chat boxes. It's like actually shocking. I'm a nice liberal man as much as anyone else, but like, holy shit, some people are fucked up in the head. That's what it is.

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