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Comment by geraneum

4 hours ago

> But as we well know, computing costs and algorithms are optimized rapidly and soon those capabilities will be more widespread. We are at an inflection point

It seems we’re perpetually in this state.

As far as I can tell, we seem to keep moving past states and redefining them while we do.

  • Chess, ok, Go, ok, doing new math, ok, breaking out of sandboxes and hacking public-facing infrastructure, ok...

I hear you, but also, "a broken clock is right twice a day." And really, there are people still alive who have more or less witnessed the entire rise of the machines.