There is a failure to understand that the process is the result. You don't study mathematics or computer science and information theory to produce commodities. You study them to transform your mind. The output of an LLM is useless without a human mind to comprehend it. We can have Super Intelligence, but if humans are incapable of comprehending it, it is just another useless dead artifact. Practice, applied over a lifetime, is what creates the capability for comprehension. Asking an LLM to give you an answer creates an artifact. Humans being humans, most of their requests boil down to "make me rich without having to work for it," so the request itself is paradoxical and impossible to satisfy. Philosophers have only been saying this for all of human history, so don't hold your breath for any breakthroughs.
> You don't study mathematics or computer science and information theory to produce commodities. You study them to transform your mind.
Normatively, this ought to be true. Descriptively, this is of course false. Our entire society is organized around producing commodities, typically by consuming people as inputs.
Depends if you need to work or not. Plenty of people don't need to work, they can live off their capital returns indefinitely.
For the upper crust of our society, work is entirely optional. Presumably people therefore continue to work for the process or the reward of the doing.
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eli_gottlieb · · focus · HN ↗
Normatively, this ought to be true. Descriptively, this is of course false. Our entire society is organized around producing commodities, typically by consuming people as inputs.
danny_codes · · focus · HN ↗
For the upper crust of our society, work is entirely optional. Presumably people therefore continue to work for the process or the reward of the doing.