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I find your multiple agist comments totally unnecessary. Just because he's 85, it doesn't mean he couldn't be "on top" of things or that his mental faculties ar
by WoodenChair 3y ago
I find your multiple agist comments totally unnecessary. Just because he's 85, it doesn't mean he couldn't be "on top" of things or that his mental faculties are necessarily greatly declining, or that he is necessarily stuck in his ways. There are plenty of sharp 85 year olds who are at the forefront of their fields and keep an open mind. Is it more likely that an 85 year old has declining mental faculties and is a little stuck in patterns than a 25 year old? Yes, of course. Just like it's more likely that a 25 year old doesn't have as much knowledge as an 85 year old. But there are plenty of 25 year olds who do in some specific field. The point is you don't know his mental state, him the individual, and you're making generalizations and questions just based on his age.
- bombcar 3y agoI go the other way and suspect that his age gives him the insight to more accurately gauge the importance of this current AI than perhaps we youngsters can.
- twelve40 3y agoI don't know, i read it as "might be important but outside of my area of interests". He's working on more fundamental things and might not be interested in applications, doesn't mean that some application or downstream technology is unimporant for the rest of the world.
- cubefox 3y ago> There are plenty of sharp 85 year olds who are at the forefront of their fields and keep an open mind. Yeah, but AI isn't his field. He would have to change his core interests, and that gets more unlikely the older you become.