oldstrangers

This strikes me as "end game" type behavior. These companies see the writing on the wall, and are willing to throw everything they have left to retain relevance in the coming post-AGI world. To me I'm more alarmed than I am shocked at the pay packages.

I'm a designer by profession but the majority of my actual schooling was in photography. Capturing a great visual moment feels second nature to me and the process feels so involuntary that you'd rarely even notice I've taken a photo. You can absolutely live in the moment and still have something to show for it.

Constructive feedback: every piece of design on this site screams I'm about to get scammed somehow.

If you're a fan of the holographic brain, you could postulate that perhaps the brain’s usual filtering mechanisms are being sufficiently degraded to allow for consciousness to tap into nonlocal holographic information. Or perhaps its a feature, returning you the "cosmic source" of all life and knowledge.

Yeah, what you said represents a 'net gain' over not having any of that at all.

> Can't we just send LLMs back to the drawing board until they have some semblance of reliability?

Well at this point they've certainly proven a net gain for everyone regardless of the occasional nonsense they spew.

Wouldn't 500bn into quantum computing show better returns for civilization? Assuming it's about progress and ... not money.

They don't seem to care about that part.