[strontian]

I’m feeling shocked.

This is the biggest technological advance in my lifetime, and it’s clear that we will get several-fold advances in the near term, just from obvious improvements(eg llms reading about how to use themselves based on all the experiments humans are doing now). That’s not even including upside surprises which there will doubtless be. LLMs gaining knowledge of the world through next word prediction was an example of this kind of surprise.

Also, I feel…strangely at peace, and less bothered by the things that usually stress me - achievement, health, the economy, whatever. The moments we’re living in and about to live through are going to be so unimaginably great(good and/or bad) those all seem so inconsequential.

[jackstraw14]

> Also, I feel…strangely at peace, and less bothered by the things that usually stress me - achievement, health, the economy, whatever. The moments we’re living in and about to live through are going to be so unimaginably great(good and/or bad) those all seem so inconsequential.

Why so optimistic? Not trying to drag you down to my cynical level but I'm not sure I understand what is putting you at peace, the unimaginably great, good and/or bad? It feels something like the very early days on the internet, how we all knew it's going to change everything and probably for the better, but I'm not sure what we have today is what people were imagining back then. We're definitely not living in some kind of tech utopia now compared to where we were 25 years ago.