Blood Music was way cooler then this just saying.

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    He always had a tendency to be wrong, but this is going right into not even wrong territory.

    The LLM modifies your DNA to create a biological wireless wifi transmitter! (He isn’t saying this but that is what is required and not just that, but so much more, like a whole DNA equivalent of a network stack, cryptography, getting rid of waste heat, etc etc. He just believes AGI is magic and that LLMs will become AGI, he has lost his mind. I mean look at how he dismisses somebody going ‘nice science fiction story brah’ with IT IS LLMS!).

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      Ignore the implication that the virus could rewire my guts into an LTE modem or brainwash me into reading and typing out entire bitcoin transaction blocks for a moment. Yud considers the ability to freely mutate humans to an arbitrary extent and the supervillain plan he comes up with is a fucking cryptocoin miner?

      How does someone this creatively bankrupt produce 660 thousand words of a fanfic?

      Not to dehumanize but are we sure Yudkowski isn’t an LLM himself?

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        God you sneerclubbers are never satisified, last time he invented biological bacteria factories creating diamondoids which killed every human alive a the same moment and it wasn’t realistic enough and now he creates a bitcoinminerbrain and suddenly he isn’t creative. Whaddayawant?!

        But yeah, it is really not that creative indeed, but then again, most ‘agi kills everybody’ stories are already a bit done.

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          The concept is just another grey goo scenario rehash but I grant that “diamondoid bacteria” is a striking name for it.

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            It just reminds me of the “diamondilium” in the Futurama movie that proved the Futurama writers didn’t know how to sustain a whole movie.