Comment by demaga
14 hours ago
What if programming languages, operating systems, concurrency primitives, databases, networking protocols, UI frameworks are already good enough, and the innovation lies elsewhere?
You can do a lot of cool stuff with the same lego pieces.
That is like saying what if music is already good enough.
Totally OT. Any advance in music in the last 100 years?
What does an advance in music even look like? Shifting tastes for pop music? Or new techniques? New music theory? Or just experimentation?
Considering all music is subjectively influenced by the culture in which it's born (see the difference between Asian traditions of music, European traditions of music, African traditions, and traditions of the Americas) not even all of those have a given structure that is present today like the typical 4/4 and have polyrhythmic and multitonal structures by design. The fact that everything on the radio has converged towards 4/4 165bpm major chord progressions is evidence of that cultural phenomenon.
Electric guitar was invented in 1931
Metal vocals are still advancing today. Check out Will Ramos doing harsh overtone screaming.
But what if the fundaments of all these, in the human produced literature, actually contain hidden circularities and holes which make very hard the progress?
IMO for the moment the greatest value from these AI tools is that we can start an audit and hopefully proceed on a saner foundation, after we use the tools and think about it.
This is different than too many AI generated proofs or panic reactions from the academic system with its stupid incentives.
what if our horse carriages were already good enough