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xboxnolifes on July 6, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: I don't think AGI is right around the corner

No valid use-case? If AGI at a human level were to exist, and cost less than hiring an equivalent human, it could replace most/all knowledge workers.

t-3 on July 6, 2025 [–]

AGI would need the whole management infrastructure and bureacracy that we use to manage humans. Specially-intelligent rather than generally-intelligent AI would be run-and-done. AGI is the worse option.

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