I just had a chance to flinch first.
It's easy to have that thought, and eventually you'll be correct. One thing about technology is that it only improves. It's always building on top of what already exists. The only uncertainty is the exact timing, not the ultimate outcome.
The people struggling right now - they were told. 30 years ago. They really should have come to terms with it by now.
But these are also the people who refused to believe it, for whatever reason. Their heads were in the sand. So I do feel bad for them... but... this is somewhat self inflicted.
It's ok - I understand it seemed impossible. But many people understood it just fine - and they're doing fine.
Your inability to give space for those who love math to mourn its inevitable evolution is unnecessarily cruel.
But we've gone back and forth about this a few times now about the same disagreement over framing.
You have a nice day.
Also, it's impossible to really know how you're going to react to something until it happens to you. When ChatGPT came out, I already thought "in the long run they're going to automate almost everything humans love to do". Despite having 4 years to brood about it, I did not really know what it would feel like until it happened to me directly.
That's how the singularity works. It's going to keep getting quicker, incomprehensibly so.
Even before LLMs it was feeling like the design of society wasn't really for people any longer, instead it's more and more designed for corporations and their convenience. In the US at least. Same with how the internet has stopped most people with socializing the same way they did in the past.
Now we have a new layer that will be optimized for these digital entities. We see it in writing all over the internet. There will be tons of other places they show up and doing things that don't make sense to us.
But it can continue to inconceivable levels before it gets to that point.
Certain of predictions? I think that's an unreasonable ask.
And I'm comfortable with my prediction. Rather than argue about it - let's wait a year and see what happens, and then we can discuss it.
Oh, good point! I misread your comment. Sorry for that!
> Rather than argue about it - let's wait a year and see what happens, and then we can discuss it.
Deal!