I had this idea 25 years ago, except that I wanted to use the AI available at the time, which would have probably been genetic algorithms. The idea was to write

I had this idea 25 years ago, except that I wanted to use the AI available at the time, which would have probably been genetic algorithms. The idea was to write the expected outputs for some input examples and have a Lisp-like language use evolution/mutation to generate a paragraph or so of code that meets the spec. Then probably do some fuzzing or SAT solving to formally enumerate the known-good cases and possible edge case exceptions. That was before I knew about ranged variables, category theory, etc. Unfortunately the real world got in the way, and I spent a quarter century treading water to survive, which was exacerbated by CPTSD amplifying ADHD and OCD symptoms many fold before I knew what they were. So now any great ideas I might have had are rendered obsolete because an LLM can synthesize them in a matter of minutes. It may be time to let go and hand things over to the next generation. - I think maybe the goal now is to keep building on these ideas until we achieve creating digital assistants that can manage all of the aspects of our lives that interfere with our goals. That's a controversial statement because the political right doesn't distinguish between setbacks and goals (it's all discipline) while the political left embraces a kind of learned helplessness as controlled opposition. Change comes glacially or not at all. In other words, help isn't coming from above - we have to pick ourselves up by our bootstraps like we always do. A few things that AI might help solve by rendering the conditions of their existence obsolete: - Money - Hunger - Illness - Exploitation - Pollution The list goes on. Unless we're actively working to solve these things, then whatever we come up with is frankly a distraction. I consider just about all tech innovation since the 1990s to be a waste of time for that reason. It all just made some guy rich. Yawn. Huzzah however, is great. I hope it leads to something wonderful.