[ninetyninenine]

>yet our most pressing problems have not made a lot of progress for decades.

You mean energy and global warming? We will pretty much hit the worst case scenario for both of these. And we've been yapping about these problems for decades so nobody cares even though they are likely 10000x more relevant.

AI is new and interesting.

[seydor]

no, cancer and alzheimer's

[ninetyninenine]

Oh same deal. We've been yapping about it for years. Probably reached our limits in terms of technology to deal with these things.

Another thing with AI is the insane progress and clear knowledge of the fact we are well below the limit.