[darthoctopus]

> You have not heard any of the many, many excitable AI maximalists in the media address this reality, the bits vs atoms barrier, because they have no response that can preserve their intense attachment to the idea that the world is about to change forever. So they resolutely ignore this basic reality: most of the world is not computers. Most of your life is dependent on technologies other than computers. Inconveniently, we also have few arenas of human endeavor that are seeing rapid development other than in computing.

I suspect stark wisdom of this nature will, unfortunately, not find HN to be fertile ground. At the same time, I am glad these other arenas, few though they be, still exist.

[tim333]

Speaking as someone along the lines of an excitable AI maximalist, I think he never asked one about the "the bits vs atoms barrier". Robots and similar, duh.

This feels to me like someone in 1905 saying ok the Wright brothers managed to fly but does that change my commute? This flight thing is over hyped by crazies. Boring.