I agree with most of the other comments here. Is actual AGI something to be worried about? I’m not sure. I don’t know if it’s even possible on our current technology path.

Based on what I know, it’s almost certainly not going to come from the current crop of LLMs and related research. Despite many claims, they don’t actually think or reason. They’re just really complicated statistical models. And while they can do some interesting and impressive things, I don’t think there is any path of progression that will make them jump beyond what they currently are to actual intelligence.

Could we develop something in my lifetime (the next 50-ish years or so for me)? Maybe. I think slim chances without a major shift, and I think it would take a public effort akin to the Manhattan Project and the Internet to achieve, but it’s possible. In the next 5 years? Definitely not, some random, massive, lucky break notwithstanding.

As others have said here, even without AGI, current capitalist practices are already using the limited capabilities of LLMs to upend the labor market and put lots of people out of a job. Even when the LLMs can’t really replace the people effectively. But that’s not a problem with AI, it’s a problem with capitalism that happens with any kind of advancement. They’ll take literally any excuse to extract extra value.

In summary, I wouldn’t worry about AGI. There’s so many other things that are problems now, and are already existential threats, that worrying about this big old “maybe in 50 years” isn’t really worth your time and energy.

Except, it is mostly scat/nonsense! Just in Finnish! Most of the song is nonsense lyrics.

But…why? Popping the cork is fun and festive, and considering most people only have that experience a handful of times in their lives, why try to stifle that little joy?

I like exercise that is also something else and isn’t purely exercise for its own sake. Things like hiking, where I get to see scenery and animals, or biking, which serves as a mode of transportation. Currently, I do renaissance fencing, which is fun and social in its own right, and I get to master a skill.

“The length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of ⁠1/299792458⁠ of a second, where the second is defined by a hyperfine transition frequency of caesium.”

This is the actual definition, but it’s also pretty weird.

I got a closeup of the plaque. I imagine it’s the same one in the series, as most of the bridge is the exact set from Picard.

That’s a nice bag!

I made a Voyager jacket (the separate variant that Janeway wears a handful of times) and I just put on a pair of black slacks as pants so I’d have pockets. Worked out pretty nice.

They had somebody taking pictures as we came in, but I lost the card they gave us so those pics are gone forever.

That spot was self-service when I got there, people were just taking turns taking pictures for people.

I know the VIP tickets got semi-private guided tours, I wonder if they got extra time for photos as part of that.

I went a few weeks ago, it was an awesome experience! My biggest disappointment was simply that the experience was so rushed and we didn’t get enough time to appreciate being on the bridge.

I was wearing a Voyager uniform with Captain’s pips, and one of the actors said “Glad to have you aboard, Captain,” which absolutely made my night.