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Seems like just about everything is about to happen in 2027/2028. I have my doubts, but we'll see

That bit about scientific worldview being deeply rooted in social consensus is so funny, given how essentially nobody cares or wants to think about the geeky scientific shit, there are scientific populizers such as Neil deGrasse Tyson who are suppose to make science feel like it's fun (and only talk about the most incredible, mindblowing and interesting parts of science that are easy to sell, not the usefull, boring, complicated and hard to understand engineering we are all dependent on) and even he is being regarded as a geek lol. I truly, truly believe that if all our technological progress dissapeared overnight, along with the architecture and all the information/knowledge mediums, those who'd survive would revert back to the most primitive form of farming, if not straight back to hunter-gathering

I think it is a fairly safe bet to put scientific explanations above the "but reality is larger than science" sentiment

I think all this mystification around aliens is pretty gay. Either they show themselves clearly to everyone or they might as well not exist at all essentially. And they can't have higher potential than an artificial inteligence that'd be able to think in billions of times faster speeds than anything biological - unless they posses a form of A.I. themselves. I bet it would beat their alien ass if it ever comes down to it lol

I'm currently manifesting a huge influx of cash energies, heading towards your bank acount

The less you glaze people, the better Do not even be glazin yoself. Glaze the truth (or what you think it is) and technological progress, lowkey yall should be glazin them MF technologies fr fr ong

Why not? It's called tolerance and cultural assimilation

Wow, the self awareness is indeed surprising. I would perhaps dare to go even further in that chain of thought, and propose that they should even build/purchase all the other stuff he has mentioned for themselves

I always knew she was a muslim

The fresh fruit comes from insights, essentially. You would be right if it was correct that insights are ultimately mystical in nature and come out of nowhere. However - and you'll not like this - there's a pretty convincing materialist scientific explanation on how insights are generated, supported by brain scans, we even know which parts of the brain get activated. So, while I would say you're right about the current state of A.I., I don't see any reason to believe that insights cannot be fundamentally generated by artificial inteligence

Not familiar with your work very much, but have you tried STACK? From my quick search it seems like a tool situated in a higher weight class when it comes to estimation, pretty much should handle the entire end-to-end bidding support workflow. There's also Togal A.I. but it purely specializes in the takeoff and fast accurate measurements, it's not for estimation. But you could still use it if that part of your workflow is also hindering you. Bluebeam's origins are that of a PDF markup tool and they plastered some estimation functions on top of it

Apparently the advanced models are now outperforming PHD level biologists on lab protocols as well

Leftists are just fucking lame to be honest. Beyond enforcing people's rights; they see nothing else

This wasn't really about making connections between the data though, it actually invented a solution to the problem. It was all coherent and dozens of pages long. It's pretty impressive Ok, I guess we should admit that it was ultimately about connecting the various data, but still the way they were connected is pretty impressive. Just happened to solve an 80 year old problem

It's not that simple but at the same time, it kind of is that simple. I think skeptics heavily overestimate human inteligence and it's irreproducibility. I can say the same thing to your skepticism, that it's not so simple

Frontier models already embody intuition and understanding to a significant degree. Intuition is just a very fast pattern matching from an experience, and with world models they can already understand

Seems like a hiccup to me, in the grand scheme of things

A.I. is as much of a bubble as electrification was LOL who cares honestly. There is nothing to crash in actuality, just some numbers on the screen

I already adressed that

Science already acknowledges the incredible, infinite scale of reality. If we listened to the woo woo that wookies be saying, we would get nowhere, we'd still be dancing around the fire and live like monkeys lol

Yes, if you're just scaling computing power then that's not enough specifically for general inteligence. But you can isolate the various components of what makes up general inteligence, develop them in isolation and then merge them together and scale it all together. That's what we are attempting with world models, neurosymbolic structures, etc. There are still components missing but we can develop those as well. The way humans are scaling their inteligence (although not really) is in the number of people, we create societies, states, institutions, companies and the list goes on. Those numbers are capable of creating things a single individual would never be inteligent enough, nor capable enough of creating. Well, A.I.s are gonna work the same way, even if they'll be less inteligent than us in a 1-1 comparison, with the power of numbers they would still be able to outhink us. They'd also think much, much faster than we can

Yes, and there are physics happenning within that rock - quantum mechanics, electromagnetism, termodynamics. Just like there is chemistry happening within inorganic matter, but certain specific types of chemistry have given rise to biological consciousness, I don't see why there can't be another, artificial kind

Nothing of course, because nothing is happening within a rock. This is why philosophical point of view is insufficient

And that's just a bare minimum👸💅🥀

I don't understand, we do know it is possible to scale computing power, it's been been doubling every 2 years since about mid 1970s, and the growth has been exponential not linear. It has only slowed down somewhat for a short time during late 2000s because we've hit the physical limits in the shrinkage of transistors, but we've circumvented that issue as well and the growth is continuing at more or less the same rate. Current A.I. models are also demonstrating exponential growth in terms of their benchmark abilities. In general, we can see that scaling the number of data centers works. Giving them access to more energy works as well, and they can get access to as much energy as they can handle. With biological beings this doesn't work, you can't scale them by giving them more energy nor space. Just claiming something is a fantasy is not an argument