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woolion parent
A lot of people see a title that is "subject I want to discuss" and jump to the comment section without even bothering to look at the link. There has been a lot AI hype, so counter-hypists are starved from content and just jumped on the first "confirmation bias title" they could find.

Thank you for the comment, "typical crackpot" feels a bit light considering how unhinged that is.


anal_reactor
What's wrong with that? Most likely, the discussion coming from various people has more value than any single article, unless it's something truly phenomenal.
woolion OP
I never said it was wrong, nor right. In fact, you might even read that as an excuse for "counter-hypists", as it's a pretty bad look to upvote such a low-quality submission. And I've made my own fun of AGI hype, but with knowledge of the fact that brevity is the fool of wit.
Mr_Minderbinder
> ...as it's a pretty bad look to upvote such a low-quality submission.

I had already just about dismissed HN as a place for any serious discussion of AI for a multitude of reasons. After seeing this I think I will be hammering in the final nail.

It has already been known for decades that arbitrarily precise approximations of mathematical formulations of AGI are computable. I was expecting nothing less than a refutation of that work from this based on the title. Unfortunately the first page alone makes it apparent that it is not, nor likely even a serious work of mathematics.

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