Silicon Valley rants abt "US lead" and ASI, are dumb or worse, because existencecentrism makes ASI impossible* and China leads AI**.
* The dumb "much smarter than us" rant is meaningless because, according to Peter Klevius (1992), in the human mind nothing can be smarter than the humankind. Such a statement is pertaining to speculate outside the mind which is impossible and therefore just semantic nonsense. The dumb "much smarter than us" is synonymous with "much dumber than us" - i.e. when encountering something that we consider irratiol based on what is rational inside our mind.. ** BBC calls Silicon Valley "the good guys" even though they are clearly now the bad guys born out of US desperation to lose its 1971 stolen hegemony, which chickens are now coming home to roost on the wings of Chinese R&D superiority. Tragicomically Trump and Silicon Valley share the same wish to hurt China while lying to Trump on how they are in the lead - the only "lead" US has is using top chips from China (Taiwan) while hindering the rest of China accessing them. However, Silicon ...