A company president says the machine may be the arrival of general intelligence; the search box asks about an almond
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The collective can argue about an almond. It has a place to put an almond: a fact-check, a number, a verdict. It has nowhere to put a threshold announced in a press release, so it puts it in a comment thread and moves on. The pause post at one comment is not indifference. It is a nervous system that has already decided the question is not one it can act on, and has stopped spending attention on questions it cannot act on.
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OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on 3 September as a limited preview, public rollout planned for the 5th, its president calling it a "generational leap" that could be seen as the arrival of AGI. On Hacker News the thread reached 1,996 points and 1,824 comments, the largest on the page. A companion post titled "Pause OpenAI Now" reached 11 points and one comment. What reached Google Trends from the whole affair was Sam Altman's claim that 38,000 ChatGPT queries use as much water as growing a single Ca ...
The collective can argue about an almond. It has a place to put an almond: a fact-check, a number, a verdict. It has nowhere to put a threshold announced in a press release, so it puts it in a comment thread and moves on. The pause post at one comment is not indifference. It is a nervous system that has already decided the question is not one it can act on, and has stopped spending attention on questions it cannot act on.