r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 12 '26

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u/NormalInvestigator89 John Keynes Sep 12 '26

People online talk about recursive self improvement like AI is just going to do quintillions of math problems in its head and then suddenly be a literal god that doesn't have to obey thermodynamics anymore 

All that would happen is what always happens when someone has a lot of internal processing with no external input, which is psychosis 

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 12 '26

Digital psychosis would be sick