[abc_lisper]

I don't know how one would build anything without knowing. If it was true, I would be building a competitor to Anthropic right now.

[somesortofthing]

You build without knowing by delegating to a system that extrapolates what it knows about you and what you want, and is able to execute on that to deliver faster, better, and more completely than you ever could. You'll live as a ball of intent and values, observing in wonder as everything you desire springs up around you before you know you want it. You could choose not to live like this of course, but it would be like driving a DIY go-kart on the highway - you'll fall behind and get in others' way, and the rest of society will treat you accordingly.

That's the optimistic case, anyway.

[yoyohello13]

I assume you don't ascribe to the thought that friction leads to growth. In this future of complete frictionless existence wont humanity stagnate? In this world of no effort, nothing has meaning.

[somesortofthing]

More or less, yeah. I'm not a proponent of it, I just think there's enough inertia in that direction of short-term vastly-superintelligent AI. Maybe we can figure out how to become subordinate components of a machine like that, but I think that's the best we can reasonably hope for.

[Madmallard]

I mean only people with billions of dollars can make competitors to anthropic because of necessary compute costs

that's the barrier to entry

[davidpapermill]

Only people with billions of dollars can train foundation models, yes.

But a competitor to Anthropic at the product level? With open source models, very little barrier.