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		iwsk on April 11, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Scaling will never get us to AGI General intelligence somehow just emerged from dirt and water + @.

jqpabc123 on April 11, 2024 [–]

And the Sun just somehow emerged from a cloud of hydrogen gas.

The obvious flaw in this line of thinking (as related to AGI) is that we/humans can create/engineer the same or similar without any real understanding of the underlying mechanisms involved.

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