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>the most powerful technology we ever invented

I recon agriculture and the steam engine would beat out ChatGPT by just a smidge.

I would put eyeglasses/the book/vaccines/sanitation far above LLMs in technological power.

Right now AI is just kinda nothing, it has potential sure, but today its just a giant pit for people to burn money in.



Solving one of the most famous Erdos problems that has remained unsolved for 80 years without using tools like lean but instead a giant reasoning block is quite a lot more than "kinda nothing"


Solving a math problem is very close to nothing in the grand scheme of things. Humans have been solving math problems for thousands of years.

I think people suffer from recency bias with AI a bit and take for granted you know gestures vaguely at the rest of human civilisation


What are you referring to when you refer to the technology of agriculture? Like John Deere's latest tractor? GMOs? The shift from hunter gathering to agrarian society?


>What are you referring to when you refer to the technology of agriculture?

Planting crops and harvesting them.


I disagree




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