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Just a few: - Lots of diseases which kill indiscriminately, - Thousands of people each year feel the need to commit suicide in ways that affect others profoun
by globular-toast 1mo ago
Just a few:
- Lots of diseases which kill indiscriminately,
- Thousands of people each year feel the need to commit suicide in ways that affect others profoundly, like via train,
- Shoe and clothing sizes are inconsistent and unreliable,
- Male pattern baldness,
- Over dependence on cars for transport, which are noisy, smelly and dangerous,
- Obesity,
- We can buy cigarettes and alcohol freely, but not any decent drugs like MDMA.
- ryan_n 1mo agoDo you actually think a person using an llm is going to start curing diseases and solve the obesity epidemic (in America) in lieu of creating fun personal software projects?? Or as another commenter said solve climate change? Surely you don’t actually believe this right? Am I missing something?
- andriy_koval 1mo agoThose all mostly problems of society governing structure and can be solved only by sunseting humans governing bodies.
- globular-toast 1mo agoIt doesn't matter. Problems are problems. These are the difficult ones.
- andriy_koval 1mo agoit matters because they are irrelevant to ai and software, hence this discussion
- globular-toast 1mo agoI believe the original point was that we shouldn't be wasting our gifts on creating silly toys but rather going back to basics and finding the real problems, whether that involves software or not.
- andriy_koval 1mo agowe need to find real solvable problems. Those you listed are mostly not solvable in society with current governance process. AI got lots of abilities suddenly emerged, and can be applied on solving problems and not silly toys.