I am still waiting for you techtopians to...
Which techtopians are these? Or are you building a nice straw man to knock down?
I am still waiting for you techtopians to...
ennui2 wrote:pstarr wrote:I am still waiting for you techtopians to project implementation of true natural language processing. Come back to me when Siri can parse this simple string; Time flies like an arrow. into it various permutations.
pstarr wrote:I never said computers don't matter.
pstarr wrote:then we agree.ennui2 wrote:But it's not going to necessarily flat-line how and when you'd like it to. There are still some interesting things going on. The vast majority of Graeme's revolutionary-sounding breakthroughs won't amount to anything, but a few probably will.
And as long as you are willing denigrate Graeme's feel-good techtopian trolling as actively as I do. It is a distraction and tends to dominate any thread by pushing down serious discussion, and off the page where new folks will never see the serious discussion. Get to work. Then we can be friends.
aadbrd wrote:Sorry for the thread bump but this was timely.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57009930
Outcast_Searcher wrote:Outfits like Nvidia continue to make VERY meaningful progress
mousepad wrote: Yes I'm much richer now, stinking rich compared to 40 years ago. But happier? Not one bit. Are you?
AdamB wrote:mousepad wrote: Yes I'm much richer now, stinking rich compared to 40 years ago. But happier? Not one bit. Are you?
Sure, based exactly on your time frame. I was young then, poor, single, and stuck in Appalachia. "Stuck" being the part that most represents "unhappiness".
Cured all 4 of those conditions in 40 years.
mousepad wrote:AdamB wrote:mousepad wrote: Yes I'm much richer now, stinking rich compared to 40 years ago. But happier? Not one bit. Are you?
Sure, based exactly on your time frame. I was young then, poor, single, and stuck in Appalachia. "Stuck" being the part that most represents "unhappiness".
Cured all 4 of those conditions in 40 years.
And all because of technologies progress? Or because you buckled down, did the work, studied, had a goal and did what was needed? What do you think?
mousepad wrote:Outcast_Searcher wrote:Outfits like Nvidia continue to make VERY meaningful progress
Not at all. They make progress. But is it meaningful?
What is the goal? What should be achieved? Happiness?
I was no less happy 40 years ago then I am now. I was able to laugh love and be merry. All this technology did not increase my quality of life one bit. Yes I'm much richer now, stinking rich compared to 40 years ago. But happier? Not one bit. Are you?
mousepad wrote:They make progress. But is it meaningful?
aadbrd wrote:mousepad wrote:They make progress. But is it meaningful?
I don't think the central thesis of the OP is about that. It's simply about whether computing power has peaked. It started flattening out but did not peak. How increased computing power impacts society is hard to discern. More power, at the very least, translates into efficiency, doing the same amount of work for less energy input. That is a positive in my book.
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