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Great. Can't happen fast enough. We've been coping with human-generated garbage for a long time, now AI will generate garbage at such a scale that the problems

Great. Can't happen fast enough. We've been coping with human-generated garbage for a long time, now AI will generate garbage at such a scale that the problems we've been coping with will be solved, because otherwise we'll all drown. This quote stuck out to me especially "There are a bunch of words, but no real value in what’s written," That has been my main problem with so many top search results, business insider being the most recognizable culprits IMO, for years.

denkmoon 3y ago
Seems like the otherwise scenario is more likely to me.
- rockemsockem 3y ago
  Why?
  - denkmoon 3y ago
    Drowning in plastic waste, drowning in atmospheric pollution, drowning in mental health disorders. None of these have resulted in a magical "we'll solve it because otherwise we'll drown" solution. I fail to see why drowning in bad search results will result in a different outcome.
    - rockemsockem 3y ago
      All of those are being solved though. Carbon capture technology has moved out of R&D and into the productionization phase. There are multiple ongoing efforts to remove plastic from the ocean and other waterways which are currently actually removing plastic, not just working on R&D. There's also tons of work on how to breakdown plastic, so we aren't stuck with it forever. Mental health is honestly a harder problem because there's less that can be directly qualified, but I'd point to the recent successes with drugs like MDMA, Ketamine, and mushrooms as a very promising avenue. Currently they seem most well suited for those who are worst off, but that is likely just the start. The knowing you're drowning part is super important. We haven't been visibly drowning in atmospheric pollution until say the past decade or so, even though the levels were absolutely astonishingly high. Similar with mental health, in the US we are now really drowning in mass shootings, which wasn't the case even 10 years ago. Search results similarly have been like kind of shitty for a long time, the past 5 years at least, but they were and are still navigable. The drowning hasn't started in search yet either.

denkmoon 3y ago

Seems like the otherwise scenario is more likely to me.

rockemsockem 3y ago
Why?
- denkmoon 3y ago
  Drowning in plastic waste, drowning in atmospheric pollution, drowning in mental health disorders. None of these have resulted in a magical "we'll solve it because otherwise we'll drown" solution. I fail to see why drowning in bad search results will result in a different outcome.
  - rockemsockem 3y ago
    All of those are being solved though. Carbon capture technology has moved out of R&D and into the productionization phase. There are multiple ongoing efforts to remove plastic from the ocean and other waterways which are currently actually removing plastic, not just working on R&D. There's also tons of work on how to breakdown plastic, so we aren't stuck with it forever. Mental health is honestly a harder problem because there's less that can be directly qualified, but I'd point to the recent successes with drugs like MDMA, Ketamine, and mushrooms as a very promising avenue. Currently they seem most well suited for those who are worst off, but that is likely just the start. The knowing you're drowning part is super important. We haven't been visibly drowning in atmospheric pollution until say the past decade or so, even though the levels were absolutely astonishingly high. Similar with mental health, in the US we are now really drowning in mass shootings, which wasn't the case even 10 years ago. Search results similarly have been like kind of shitty for a long time, the past 5 years at least, but they were and are still navigable. The drowning hasn't started in search yet either.