[baby]

I dislike this argument because it’s about limiting the most powerful technology we ever invented because it doesn’t fit well with how we established some social structures.

[bigfishrunning]

I think "most powerful technology we ever invented" is a controversial statement anyway -- AI is a party trick of dubious value.

[baby]

Oh boy you’re going to get hit hard by this technological wave when you wake up

[Jtarii]

>the most powerful technology we ever invented

I recon agriculture and the steam engine would beat out ChatGPT by just a smidge.

I would put eyeglasses/the book/vaccines/sanitation far above LLMs in technological power.

Right now AI is just kinda nothing, it has potential sure, but today its just a giant pit for people to burn money in.

[scronkfinkle]

Solving one of the most famous Erdos problems that has remained unsolved for 80 years without using tools like lean but instead a giant reasoning block is quite a lot more than "kinda nothing"

[Jtarii]

Solving a math problem is very close to nothing in the grand scheme of things. Humans have been solving math problems for thousands of years.

I think people suffer from recency bias with AI a bit and take for granted you know gestures vaguely at the rest of human civilisation

[nonethewiser]

What are you referring to when you refer to the technology of agriculture? Like John Deere's latest tractor? GMOs? The shift from hunter gathering to agrarian society?

[Jtarii]

>What are you referring to when you refer to the technology of agriculture?

Planting crops and harvesting them.

[baby]

I disagree