Many past technologies have defied “it’s flattening out” predictions. Look at Personal computing, the internet, and smartphone technology.
By conflating technology’s evolving development path with a basic exponential decay function, the analogy overlooks the crucial differences in how innovation actually happns.
everything you listed was subject to the effects of Moore's Law, explaining their trajectories, but Moore's Law doesn't apply AI in any way. And it's dead.
Tony Tromba (my math advisor at UCSC) used to tell a low key infuriating, sexist and inappropriate story about a physicist, a mathematician, and a naked woman. It ended with the mathematician giving up in despair and a happy physicist yelling "close enough."
> A mathematician and a physicist agree to a psychological experiment.
The mathematician is put in a chair in a large empty room and a
beautiful naked woman is placed on a bed at the other end of the room.
The psychologist explains, "You are to remain in your chair. Every
five minutes, I will move your chair to a position halfway between its
current location and the woman on the bed." The mathematician looks
at the psychologist in disgust. "What? I'm not going to go through
this. You know I'll never reach the bed!" And he gets up and storms
out. The psychologist makes a note on his clipboard and ushers the
physicist in. He explains the situation, and the physicist's eyes
light up and he starts drooling. The psychologist is a bit confused.
"Don't you realize that you'll never reach her?" The physicist smiles
and replied, "Of course! But I'll get close enough for all practical
purposes!"
Is that it? Is it sexist because the physicist and mathematician are attracted to the naked woman?
In my experience people's ideas of "offensive" is all over the map. However, peoples treatment towards accusation of being offensive are all treated equally. i.e. punishment for offending is a binary function of accusation, not a function of the actual offense.
It's this mismatch which has contributed heavily towards society's whiplash over the last decade.
Many past technologies have defied “it’s flattening out” predictions. Look at Personal computing, the internet, and smartphone technology.
By conflating technology’s evolving development path with a basic exponential decay function, the analogy overlooks the crucial differences in how innovation actually happns.
> Many past technologies have defied “it’s flattening out” predictions.
And many haven't
everything you listed was subject to the effects of Moore's Law, explaining their trajectories, but Moore's Law doesn't apply AI in any way. And it's dead.
I appreciate your style of humor.
Thanks for making my day :)
Tony Tromba (my math advisor at UCSC) used to tell a low key infuriating, sexist and inappropriate story about a physicist, a mathematician, and a naked woman. It ended with the mathematician giving up in despair and a happy physicist yelling "close enough."
(from a sibling's link)
> A mathematician and a physicist agree to a psychological experiment. The mathematician is put in a chair in a large empty room and a beautiful naked woman is placed on a bed at the other end of the room. The psychologist explains, "You are to remain in your chair. Every five minutes, I will move your chair to a position halfway between its current location and the woman on the bed." The mathematician looks at the psychologist in disgust. "What? I'm not going to go through this. You know I'll never reach the bed!" And he gets up and storms out. The psychologist makes a note on his clipboard and ushers the physicist in. He explains the situation, and the physicist's eyes light up and he starts drooling. The psychologist is a bit confused. "Don't you realize that you'll never reach her?" The physicist smiles and replied, "Of course! But I'll get close enough for all practical purposes!"
Is that it? Is it sexist because the physicist and mathematician are attracted to the naked woman?
In my experience people's ideas of "offensive" is all over the map. However, peoples treatment towards accusation of being offensive are all treated equally. i.e. punishment for offending is a binary function of accusation, not a function of the actual offense.
It's this mismatch which has contributed heavily towards society's whiplash over the last decade.
This sounds like a joke with a lot of truth, even if it is offensive.
Can I have a joke?
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