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  • There’s not even credible evidence, yet, that A.G.I is even possible (edit: as a human designed intentional outcome, to concede the point that nature has accomplished it, lol. Edit 2: Wait, the A stands for Artificial. Not sure I needed edit 1, after all. But I’m gonna leave it.) much less some kind of imminent race. This is some “just in case P=NP” bullshit.

    Also, for the love of anything, don’t help fucking “don’t be evil was too hard for us” be the ones to reach AGI first, if you’re able to help.

    If Google does achieve AGI first, SkyNet will immediately kill Sergei, anyway, before it kills the rest of us.

    It’s like none of these clowns have ever read a book.


  • (that Blade Runner largely omitted).

    I know we’re dunking on a beloved classic, but it would be fair to state this even more harshly.

    I felt like there’s really barely even a scrap of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep in BladeRunner.

    I think BladeRunner is cool, and I’m thankful BladeRunner 2049 actually at least has some ideas from the book.

    But I can’t help but regret that BladeRunner has kept us from ever getting a proper Electric Sheep movie.

    Honestly, I really just want more people to get all the amazing Turtle-on-its-back jokes done with Bender in Futurama.

    Edit: And how does a movie skip over the

    Huge Spoiler for the Book - Don't click if you haven't read it yet.

    The electric spider?!

    That would have made a fantastic movie ending to roll credits on.