A lot of #
AGI denialism roots in having missed the boat.
People didn't manage to pivot their careers, or contribute meaningfully to the current trend in technology which aims to build AGIs and ASIs.
So, they will rationalize having missed the boat by hallucinating some walls coming up like a Deus Ex Machina to stop the progress, and then a next trend comes in the form of wherever they are situated.
Perhaps traditional old-fashioned #
ML which "has smaller power requirements", or the world gives up with #
AI and gets back to traditional software development with Java.
You can also see a lot of this #
denialism by #
VCs who missed the boat and are desperately clutching their Excel sheets trying to prove that the current cycle in AGI development cannot produce enough revenue to justify the investment.
They are implicitly hallucinating a wall which somehow prevents this technology from transforming our whole economic system.
So that they can take the next boat, which they pray for.