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1. mgaldys4 · 1790086411 · focus · HN ↗

   Even the Millennium Prize Problems have, in a way, become benchmarks for model companies to prove themselves. The smartest individuals among humans are becoming replaceable. Intelligence has become a product you can quantify and buy with electricity. That feels awful.

   1. skeledrew · 1790087262 · focus · HN ↗

      > That feels awful

      Only if you subscribe to the "humans are special" rhetoric, in which case I'm - maybe - sorry to say the feeling will only intensify.

      1. suddenlybananas · 1790092374 · focus · HN ↗

         I genuinely don't understand how some people are so self-hating.

         1. anthonyrstevens · 1790181249 · focus · HN ↗

            How do you get "self-hating" out of that? I think you're projecting your own attitudes about AI onto the parent comment. Saying "humans aren't special in terms of evaluation criteria <X>" is not self-hating, it's potentially a statement of fact.

            I'm imagining that someone like you would have argued that animals weren't conscious, or couldn't communicate, back in the day, because humans were "special" that way.

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