What hath man wrought?

 

If it indeed means what it say, this was a development I wasn't anticipating for some time...

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@iruletheworldmo

ok. i’m tired of holding back. some of labs are holding things back from you.

the acceleration curve is fucking vertical now. nobody's talking about how we just compressed 200 years of scientific progress into six months. every lab hitting capability jumps that would've been sci-fi last quarter. we're beyond mere benchmarks and into territory where intelligence is creating entirely new forms of intelligence.

watched a demo yesterday that casually solved protein folding while simultaneously developing metamaterials that shouldn't be physically possible. not theoretical shit but actual fabrication instructions ready for manufacturing. the researchers presenting it looked shell shocked. some were laughing uncontrollably while others sat in stunned silence. there's no roadmap for this level of cognitive explosion.

we've crossed into recursive intelligence territory and it's no longer possible to predict second order effects. forget mars terraforming or fusion. those are already solved problems just waiting for implementation. the real story is the complete collapse of every barrier between conceivable and achievable. the gap between imagination and reality just vanished while everyone was arguing about risk frameworks. intelligence has broken free of all theoretical constraints and holy fuck nobody is ready for what happens next week. reality itself is now negotiable.

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Personally I haven't the means to assess the truth of the claim but it appears credible.  As to it's impact (beyond the vaporization of blockchain?), I don't think we need open the first Bene Gesserit convent just yet.  Einstein saw science as an exploration of Gods revelation and creation.

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.  
In truth a legitimate conflict between science and religion cannot exist." - A. E.

As long as we see to the necessary fusion of the realms in our exploitation of what is to come in computing power we should see a better world.  

At a minimum, in it's application we must heed the warnings of a very unreligious sort ...

"Invoke not that which ye cannot control."  - HPL