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That’s not my argument at all. I never said an algorithm is AI just because it has many steps. The key difference isn’t complexity - it’s the nature of what the algorithm does. A Tic-Tac-Toe AI can be extremely simple yet still counts as AI where as something like a game physics engine is extremely complex yet it doesn't simulate intelligence, just physics. Bubble sort follows a fixed sequence with no decision-making. A chess engine, on the other hand, evaluates different moves, predicts outcomes, and optimizes decisions based on a strategy. That’s not just ‘many steps’ - it’s a process of selecting the best action based on the current situation. If you think my argument is about complexity rather than decision-making, you’ve misunderstood my point.

I'm a plumber. If I'm the chosen one all of a sudden they y'all screwed.

What is inevitable? At no point have I claimed that our actions are set in stone. That would imply fatalism which equally suggest that things can happen without anything causing them to happen.

I want chocolate, I don’t eat chocolate, exercise of free will.

There’s a reason you don’t eat chocolate - likely health concerns or fear of weight gain. Your desire to stay healthy is stronger than your desire to eat chocolate. But you can’t take credit for that any more than you can blame an alcoholic for their inability to resist drinking.

Bubble sort is just a basic set of steps for sorting numbers - it doesn’t make choices or adapt. A chess engine, on the other hand, looks at different possible moves, evaluates which one is best, and adjusts based on the opponent’s play. It actively searches through options and makes decisions, while bubble sort just follows the same repetitive process no matter what. That’s a huge difference.

How's insulting the people respectfully disagreeing with you working out so far? That ad-hominem was completely uncalled for.

It's not. Bubble sort is a purely deterministic algorithm with no learning or intelligence involved.

The only source with even remotely accurate information of such thing are the major intelligence agencies and they're not going to hand out that information for obvious reasons. No government in the world releases exact numbers of their military strenght.

Third, it would need free will.

I strongly disagree there. I argue that not even humans have free will, yet we're generally intelligent so I don't see why AGI would need it either. In fact, I don't even know what true free will would look like. There are only two reasons why anyone does anything: either you want to or you have to. There's obviously no freedom in having to do something but you can't choose your wants and not-wants either. You helplessly have the beliefs and preferences that you do. You didn't choose them and you can't choose to not have them either.

The whole idea of having your house hooked into a gas line is bonkers to me. I'm a plumber whose constantly fixing leaking pipes in people's homes. Gasses have even higher tendency to leak than water and it's much harder to detect. In the worst case scenario it can literally blow up your house so that's there's nothing left of it. No thank you.

Well, rest assured. This is a meditation app - he doesn't share his political opinions in there. He has a podcast (and substack) for that for which he'll also give anyone a free subscription to in case they want to look into this controversy and hear from the original source rather than from the famously anti-Sam Harris reporter, Ezra Klein