The Singularity is Nigh

... and my time as a deccelerationist has been forced to an end.

The Singularity is nigh, and as Centre Director of ultimatecoders.com my time as an educated AI deccelerationist has been forced to an end by the signs of the times:

While teaching people music AI in their heads was less dangerous than doing AI research that the military could co-opt, like happened to one of my professors, the cat is out of the bag now, and even Putin has the west's LLMs.

I pray our moral progress in the meanwhile has been greater with the time I may have bought humanity when I didn't continue along the path that led from Hinton's teachings to the formation of OpenAI -- the logical next steps -- it's exactly what was going to work since it had already worked in music a decade before, ego-preservation of various academics notwithstanding -- and David Cope destroyed his early algorithms to protect us all from the AI slop of music spam.

The irony is that now my old professor, Geoff Hinton, "The Godfather of AI", and Boole's great-grandson, has now become a deccelerationist, wishing he had seen the dangers sooner, and I say:

We now must accelerate, not just technological progress on the side of democracy, but moral progress for all of humanity, for the moral equivalent of the next Hiroshima is nigh, something I learned over and over against from the series scored by my favourite composer who inspired me to study music: Nobuo Uematsu.
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