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>>tedsan+(OP)
This is a Military project. Have no doubts about it.

>>belter+X71
This is a money making scheme.

>>Gud+ie1
This has cosmological significance if it leads to superintelligence

>>arisAl+we1
It won't unless there's another (r)evolution in the underlying technology / science / algorithms, at this point scaling up just means they use bigger datasets or more iterations, but it's more finetuning and improving the existing output then coming up with a next generation / superintelligence.

>>Cthulh+al1
Okay, but let’s be pessimistic for a moment. What can we do if that revolution does happen, and they’re close to AGI?

I don’t believe the control problem is solved, but I’m not sure it would matter if it is.

>>Fillig+3o1
Being pessimistic, how come no human supergeniuses ever took over the world? Why didn't Leibniz make everyone else into his slaves?

I don't even understand what the proposed mechanism for "rouge AI enslaves humanity" is. It's scifi (and not hard scifi) as far as I can see.

>>ForHac+zo1
I consider many successful military leaders and politicians to be geniuses as well. In my books, Caesar is as genius as Newton!

Having said that, we do not to understand the world to exploit it for ourselves. And what better way to understand and exploit the universe than science? Its an endearment.