Jeffrey Epstein’s good buddy and consent enthusiast Noam Chomsky argued that language was a means of controlling the populace. The powers-that-be decide the terms of this universal vocabulary to shape the debate and decide what’s polite and what’s not. But so often, words get used ad nauseam that they cease to have any real meaning. Like AGI. Tech bros have been announcing the imminent arrival of AGI or Artificial General Intelligence with every iteration with the alacrity of your food delivery guy who says he’s just getting there but, like Godot, never arrives.
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