It is specifically your manner of speech that is pretentious and cultlike.
If you cannot comment on technological advancement without making hyperbolic claims, why would you even comment at all? Deep down you must know that "Ask HN: Is September 8th AGI Day?" is a plainly bad-faith question that does not stimulate intellectual curiosity and cannot be answered at all.
Arbitrarily defining AGI around "exactly what AGI should be" is like what a character from HBO's Silicon Valley would say. Let's hold ourselves to higher standards, at least slightly.
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It is specifically your manner of speech that is pretentious and cultlike.
If you cannot comment on technological advancement without making hyperbolic claims, why would you even comment at all? Deep down you must know that "Ask HN: Is September 8th AGI Day?" is a plainly bad-faith question that does not stimulate intellectual curiosity and cannot be answered at all.
Arbitrarily defining AGI around "exactly what AGI should be" is like what a character from HBO's Silicon Valley would say. Let's hold ourselves to higher standards, at least slightly.