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> Thus, if we continue to strive to design/create/invent such, it is inevitable that eventually it must happen.

~200 years of industrial revolution and we already fucked up beyond the point of no return, I don't think we'll have resources to continue on this trajectory for 1m years. We might very well be accelerating towards a brick wall, there is absolutely no guarantee we'll hit AGI before hitting the wall



>We might very well be accelerating towards a brick wall, there is absolutely no guarantee we'll hit AGI before hitting the wall

We've already set the course for human extinction, we're about 6-8 generations away from absolute human extinction. We became functionally extinct 10-15 years ago. Still, if we had another 5 million years, I'm one hundred percent certain we could crack AGI.




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