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While horses don't consume fossil fuels, they also don't solve the problem of transoceanic flight. Yet for some reason every discussion of airplane design ends
by sdenton4 4y ago
While horses don't consume fossil fuels, they also don't solve the problem of transoceanic flight. Yet for some reason every discussion of airplane design ends up dominated by a vocal contingent of buggy whip salesmen.
- wizzwizz4 4y agoTurns out, we don't need transoceanic flight; we can put horses on stirrups, and have an elegant system of clockwork to allow them to power a boat. https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-pastry-ai-that-learned-to-fight-cancer https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-past...
- ativzzz 4y agoCarmack or someone said that all of the pieces needed for AGI are already solved, it's just a matter of someone scouring through 40+ years of AI research and finding the right papers/techniques and putting the concepts together
- captaincaveman 4y agoI'm not entirely sure we have even identified all the problems of AGI yet, if so would be interested to see that list?
- nonrandomstring 4y agoAnd while airplanes don't solve the "problem" of human connectedness, it's inevitably a conversation led by advocates of transoceanic flight still hankering for flying cars and living in the Jetsons world of the 1950s futurists - long after transoceanic flight has become an actual problem. Same thing. Different parochial perspective.
- z3phyr 4y agoAnd people who work on transoceanic flights advertise unicorns to people.