Comment by oliculipolicula

You know how drunken debates with friends over trivia became pointless with the advent of Google and Wikipedia. The debates didn't get better. But they could. They did. Today we have HN mods and HN citations and upvotes

>useful filter

There's also "useful friction" as _almost_ imagined by Tao here

https://youtu.be/svl_1upFpQo?t=25m11s

We can't know in advance, but something like the "weird cadence" that arises when 2 skilled humans try to do a threesome with an AI..

could be reified into a local measure (eutripsis) of how likely advances (conceptual or otherwise) are in the midterm