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 I’m surprised by the amount of ai luddite energy on here, it’s bizarre. Almost every reply to my ai posts is dismissive like a boomer saying bitcoin is going to crash: “the ai is lying to you bro, you’re so naive”.

People who say this aren’t paying attention to the rapidly increasing capabilities of these system. If hallucinations are the main critique, then humans are already much worse at this, and ai systems are only getting better. They are becoming less hallucinogenic and less sycophantic as they get larger and more fine tuned.

I believe advanced ai is one of the most important inventions humanity will ever create, even more so than bitcoin. Maybe the ego can’t take the idea that there could be other systems in this world that could be smarter than us.