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"It's a terrible thing that we made"

by secondbreakfast on 2/5/24, 1:55 PM with 2 comments

  • by nonrandomstring on 2/5/24, 2:34 PM

    I liked that. Nice poetic. Well done Will Schreiber. Catches the mood quite well.

    Fortunately I think the author knows, like Feynman, that he's wrong, and for more or less the same reasons. that's what makes it poetic.

    Just as nuclear bombs exposed the futility of total war, "AI" is most likely going to expose the tragic pointlessness of so much of our digital technology. Maybe just in time.

    As Red Adair [0] figured out, often a great way to put out a fire is throw a bloody great bomb into the middle of it.

    [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Adair

  • by h2odragon on 2/5/24, 2:05 PM

    You ain't failed, until you quit trying.

    Despair is never pretty, nor productive.

    "Human achievement is over," what arrogance!