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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social

And here is Hermann Hauser, confidently proclaiming that 'superintelligence' will be with us in about 10 years #efa2025

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aug 27, 2025, 12:21 pm • 5 1

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greg_j_davis @gregorydavis.bsky.social

"When AGI does come, it will be a triumph for cogsci, not engineering"

aug 28, 2025, 11:06 am • 0 0 • view
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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social

You sound like @garymarcus.bsky.social !

aug 28, 2025, 6:15 pm • 1 0 • view
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greg_j_davis @gregorydavis.bsky.social

File under 'Space 1999' and robots from 'Tomorrow's World'

aug 27, 2025, 1:21 pm • 1 0 • view
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Simon Christmas @simonxmas.bsky.social

Can’t help wondering how strong is the correlation between confident proclamation and subsequent confirmation.

aug 27, 2025, 12:29 pm • 1 0 • view
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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social

Such a thing is possible. only because ‘superintelligence’ is not well defined

aug 27, 2025, 12:50 pm • 2 0 • view
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Simon Christmas @simonxmas.bsky.social

Or indeed ‘intelligence’

aug 27, 2025, 3:04 pm • 0 0 • view
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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social

Well exactly

aug 28, 2025, 2:04 am • 1 0 • view
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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co

Experts haven't gotten this prediction correct for the last fifty years. So, I don't know why anyone would be moved by the prediction of a non-expert on the matter.

aug 27, 2025, 2:09 pm • 1 0 • view