[godelski]

  > What a world we live in.

It's a really interesting world. You can spam GPT to get novel math results but here I am trying to scroll up to the beginning of the conversation and 5 minutes in I still don't know if I'm near the top yet.

Scroll... wait for render... scroll... wait for render... repeat...

We live in a world where there's so much crazy technology but few people use it to make products better or to improve people's lives. Most people use it to just make more money. It's funny too, because there's a million things we could use that tech for that actually reduce costs. Hell, what would be the economic impact of putting ML systems into streetlights so they properly coordinate. Don't even need LLMs for that, and I'm sure it'd save billions of dollars a year. Just a lack of will. I wonder if this will ever change. Is this how we create the high tech low life future?

(FWIW, no problems if I jump into the app. It's purely a web thing, but my point more illustrative than specific)

[estetlinus]

And I am still waiting for the Apple Reminders AI to sort Milk in the right category…

[nxobject]

Better than a 2026 human, worse than a 2016 machine. You win some, you lose some, I guess...

[mrngld]

And meanwhile, I gave up trying to connect to my offices printer months ago. Paper free environment over here, planned or not.

[tim333]

On my mac if you scroll slightly a blob appears on a slider on the right and you slide it to the top to go to the top. I'm not sure about these hidden user interface features that you only find through trial and error.

[looofooo0]

if people use it to make money, does this not mean that they providing some sort of service which is valued and hence it improves lifes?!

[dbdr]

In an ideal world, that would be true, but the actual world is very far from that. As an extreme example, AI is very useful to automate scamming people.

[inigyou]

No, money and value have been decorrelated for a long time. At least 5 years and arguably since Reagan.

[lanstin]

Like it was so correlated back in 1600? Under the Romans? But perhaps you just mean that the increased financialization of the US economy means that the percentage of economic wealth devoted to actions without value is increasing? Sort of a modern trajectory to 1789 with the foppish nobles not realizing how much everyone else can get along without them?

[Antipode]

There are a multitude of methods of obtaining money that do not benefit society.

[stephbook]

> few people use it to improve people's lives.

Did Tao do that?

[lanstin]

The architecture of our modern technological society lies on top of pure maths. One cannot say “resolving the physicality of the Navier-Stokes equation” will lead to x, y or Zed human improvements, but for hundreds of years it has. It is like Bach making his fugues for beauty and pleasure but occasionally you get chip technology or mathematical ecology or GPS falling out of it.

[sevenzero]

It always is about money. As long as there's money it will always be about it. LLMs are big techs attempt of shifting money from the people further up, by getting rid of jobs. We're all not angry enough because some of yall are so delusional about the whole thing, by thinking we will get some kind of Utopia.