I am getting a stronger and stronger sense that ai REALY is a sex/drug cult, that not long ago would have coalesed around a band or guru, but has somehow formed around the mad concept of conjuring a tame god, this last unspoken, the tame bit, but it's just people hacking everything, and just like all cults it's built on hype, money, and influence, and the eternal scam that if you do as we say, god, unlike the band, will take requests.

Can someone explain why RSI is that critical? At best it is replacing a few 1000 engineers. So what? More than RSI I’m interested in whether there exists a ceiling in intelligence. My intuition says that because we live in a human world with human data, there’s a tendency for AI to be at human scale of intelligence. For example I see context window of 1 million which is suspiciously similar OOM to our own. Why not 1000 million??

the crucial point therefore should be whether our techniques can scale intelligence beyond the scale of humans while being constrained to human level data and techniques.