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Venkatesh Rao ☀️@vgr
3/23/2023

I really dislike the conflation of “human equivalent” and “general” and their interchangeable use as adjectives for intelligence but I may have to give up that battle. Not a hill worth dying on. Call it AGI and confuse yourself if you want.

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Venkatesh Rao ☀️@vgr
3/23/2023

There are 3 senses of generality people conflate: - Mathematical generality (universal as in turing machines and function approximators) - general as in Heinlein “specialization is for insects” quote - general as in omniscience/omnipotent like a god