Yeah, it's not amazing by any stretch, but at least—if scaled up—it could prevent SOME fossil fuels from getting dug out of the ground...and polystyrene is so easily broken up into microplastics when relegated to the landfill or discarded into the environment, so maybe recycling it in this way would reduce that aspect to some degree. PERHAPS in the combination of these two measures, it could provide a small, but overall positive, effect on the environment.

It's still fossil based. It's just gone through a plastic phase.

This is good though: if you can't reduce, or reuse, at least recycle.

Inventing the wheel......

OH they changed it from when we make X billions of dollars we well have AGI

It doesn't seem to violate guidelines and was a view on the future. Imagine there was some hard reason AGI wasn't possible with silicon. I really can't think of a mechanism but that's still futurism even if it doesn't align with your view of it. It's basically Dune (sure it's fiction and the prequels kind of hinge on AI but the main novels don't and are considered scifi which seems like a reasonable yardstick).

That said, their follow up is pretty aggressive. I can see that killing community. So would their pessimism I guess but I kind of hope this channel isn't only for soft sci-fi discussions as if they're realistic.

I think your best bet is to ask the folks over at Numenta what they think it means. They're a lot more convincing than the chat bot bros.

I feel like the modern civilization (or at least world order) is likely to collapse before we reach AGI. Either due to this:

Or due to the impending climate disaster.

Or due to a certain orange person with alleged dementia nuking China.

I don't think humans will go extinct (not for a while, anyways), but scientific progress will be on pause for a while there.

All I see is somehow realistic science fiction. AGI is still a bullshit goalpost ever moving. The new AGI according to the OpenAI retarded CEO is "chat bot that can buy groceries," is that what you were referring to?

There is no AGI.

Came here to ask similar. 😅🤢

Not a good sign when one's first thought is, "wait, is this FDA approval or RFK's FDA approval?"

That would have meant something a few years ago