Many worrisome aspects with this in terms of smelling like a super bubble.
Even being bullish on LLMs, it is not obvious this is the right paradigm even for AGI let alone something beyond AGI.
Seems like it could be 10 years from now
"Remember during the peak of the bubble when Zuckerberg was paying researchers 100 million dollars to try to make a super humanoid robot out of just a mouth?"
Banning algorithmic recommendations would need to ban search engines.
Social media is ultimately just a website. Anything I can think of quickly gets down the road of banning the web browser and/or banning email.
The only solution is people have to have the freedom to use these stupid platforms or not. People have to have the freedom to be stupid on stupid platforms.
Exactly. As a non-software engineer, people talk about software as some fine art on here while my experience as a user is that most software basically sucks in one way or another.
It doesn't take super intelligence to give my elderly father a bath or wipe his ass.
I think the main problem is we would almost need an economic depression so that at the margin there were for less alternative jobs available than giving my father a bath.
Then also consider that say we do have super-intelligence that adds a few years to his life because of better diagnostics and treatment of death. It actually makes the day to day care problem worse in the aggregate.
We are headed towards this boomer long term care disaster and there is nothing that is going to avert it. Boomers I talk to are completely in denial of this problem too. They are expecting the long term care situation to look like what their parents had. I just try to convince every boomer I know that they have to do everything they can do physically now to better themselves to stay out of long term care as long as possible.
I just assume the job of the designer is make everything look the same.
Creativity is the domain of the artist, doesn't seem to have anything to do with design.
I wouldn't knock the corporate designer costume anymore than knocking an investment banker for wearing a suite.
I think more importantly there is this stupid argument that because the submarine is not swimming it will never be able to "swim" as fast as us.
This is true of course in a pointlessly rhetorical sense.
Completely absurd though once we change "swimming" to the more precise "moving through water".
The solution is not to put arms and legs on the submarine so it can ACTUALLY swim.
It would be quite trivial to make a Gary Marcus style argument that humans still can't fly. We would need much longer and wider arms, much less core body mass, feathers.
The irony is that is is a more fundamental problem that both of us are engaged in right now.
Why are we wasting our time having this discussion and not just debating the finer points of Wittgenstein?
Once basic needs are met humans mostly do things for fun and entertainment. Truth seeking is mostly an after the fact justification for what was fun and entertaining in the moment.
Sich meinen, einer regel zu folgen, ist nicht, einer regel folgen.
Exactly. It is like when people complain about the inflation rate not reflecting reality but of course haven't bothered to look at the FRED data and how incredibly granular they do go with the data. Really not even understanding that the inflation rate is an index.
As if you can go more granular than Producer Price Index by Commodity: Chemicals and Allied Products: Thermoplastic Resins and Plastics Materials
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPU0662
It is like with GDP and unemployment. These are incredibly hard things to measure at the scale of the US economy. How can a thinking person not understand this is beyond me.
American baby boomers hobby in retirement is going out to eat as much as possible and drinking beer/wine. Or they travel to other countries to go out to eat as much as possible and drink beer/wine/cocktails.
All the baby boomer men in my family would be dead if it wasn't for the American health care system.
Even suffering heart attacks, they didn't miss a beat to get back to going out to eat, drinking beer/wine and being massively overweight.
If you go to any restaurant at night it will be packed with fat old people stuffing their face. Most on medications so that they don't have to change their lifestyle.
No country has ever had the BMI of old people that America has right now. It is a wealth curse.
I think you are right if we scale to a type of super intelligence in all domains.
Otherwise, I can't know everything so a human will be able to build a better tool with AI that I will use for domains I have no clue about. Just like it has always been without AI.
You probably should spend less time on Reddit though if that is the example that comes to mind.
College football is arguably the second biggest sport in the entire US.
I mean I can completely understand the argument that it makes no sense but it is hard for an outsider to understand what something like Ohio State vs Michigan or Alabama vs Auburn in football means for those communities.
To say it is inevitable they split is just not understanding what these teams mean to the people and communities involved.
There is just something fun and additionally communal about the college sports team that isn't replicated by a professional team.
The biggest feature though is that it makes the teams temporary structures that are always changing because the kids graduate. That is something that would be really hard to replicate in a professional sports league. 3-4 years and then you are kicked out of the league. That doesn't work.