The Techno-(Lord) Optimist Manifesto. Marc Andreesen wrote the Techno-Optimist Manifesto to convince you he knows where the stairway to heaven is. But all I've seem from him is the highway to hell. He insists he should be able to continue to enshittify any industry he desires in order to make more billions from it. He claims this is a great bargain for the world. Why? Why does a billionaire in the richest most stratified society in the history of the world, where his technology has created the most economically unequal society ever; worse than France in 1789, worse than the US Gilded Age in the 1890s; want to continue raping the American economy? Because he can. He's on the right side of the inequality gap, and if you don't let him continue to steal from the peasants, he's going to be very, very mad. This Manifesto is not for the peasants for they wouldn't understand why they must be sacrificed. The "Manifesto" is verbatim and in courier , the comment...
I've been looking for Artificial General Intelligence for years and haven't found anything close. Last time I looked [1] there was no sign of any Artificial General Intelligence. When I first looked [2], eight years ago, there was also no sign of any thinking machines. And today there still isn't. We're much closer, a recent article by engineers at Apple [3] hints at where the next breakthroughs are needed. The paper "AI:2027" makes a spirited argument that AGI will be here in two years. [5] Regardless of all the hype out there (mostly pushed by people who plan to make money off of selling general intelligence) the actual evidence is scant. Pattern matching Machine Learning using vector databases and transformers is getting better exponentially, it shows lots of competence, but little understanding... just like evolution. But I thought I'd take a day or two and go looking again. It's been eight years since my first journey and things have really gotten...