Comment by latexr
1 month ago
I don’t see what that has to do with “when did we stop liking to learn”, which is the only point I’m addressing. My point has nothing to do with AI and it doesn’t seem like you actually learned anything from that experiment.
I read it more as response to your argument that it was a lack of curiosity due to over stimulation, which they responded to by citing an example of a time when they were curious while stimulated and chucked something at a vibe-coding agent to satisfy that curiosity.
Yep, now I have the time to satisfy my curiosity in weird things because it doesn't take active time from me that much.
Before all those curiosity brain farts would've just slipped away with "oh well, I'll never have the time to find out".
Wikipedia has scratched the same itch multiple times, but from a different angle. Doing deep dives in weird stuff is so much easier with Wikipedia than it used to be when you had to go to the library and pull books from the shelves for an hour or two.