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It's extremely uncommon that everything changes suddenly and forever. Most technological progress is a continuum, with little step functions of "this is it."
by nkozyra 4y ago
It's extremely uncommon that everything changes suddenly and forever.
Most technological progress is a continuum, with little step functions of "this is it."
The AI/ML progress in the last ten years is a big local maximum, though, and that's enough to drastically change things for a lot of people.
- nine_k 4y ago> everything changes suddenly and forever. Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, it's the prevalent mode of historical development, I'd hazard to say. Things that lasted for millennia have been displaced in a few centuries, and eventually the delay changed to a few decades. "Suddenly" is not overnight, "suddenly" is when your children will live in a really different world.