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>But what you're specifically watching here is two brains from two entirely different species communicating and working together.

No this is a dude playing with his chatbot.

This is just some short polymer chains in a chemical soup.

Everything starts as a toy.

Look at early computing.

Conversely, I was party to every part of crypto hype and there are some amazing parallels, like right now when people start pretending to be philosophical greeting cards instead of making concrete statements.

I never had a use for crypto.

I'm making movies with VFX now. (I've been a photons on glass filmmaker for over a decade. This tech rocks.)

I'm basically automating my work and acting as a senior manager. Claude can write my code in my style 100x faster than me. I'm reviewing the code, making adjustments - that means I have to pay back the efficiency gain, but overall this is easily a doubling of my productivity.

I'm making music and images and I've never been able to do those things. I suck at graphics design - now I can actually do it.

Google search sucks. Complicated searches had become impossible. Now I can ask very obscure and hard questions and easily verify the LLM results.

We've effectively jumped 50 years in tech capability, it feels like. I feel like I'm living in the future. This is only the beginning, too.

I don't care if you use AI. In fact, I'm better off if you don't. That gives me even more of an edge.

Please stay away from AI. I'll keep using it.

> I'm making music and images and I've never been able to do those things. I suck at graphics design - now I can actually do it.

I’d argue you still can’t do it, you just have access to cheap enough labour that you can afford to have it done for you on a scale which you couldn’t before. However seeing as you haven’t developed those skills in the first place you also lack the ability to make any deep critique of the output you are given. Instead of guiding it in the way someone experienced would, you’re still the client, except now you’re the client of a machine.

You and every two bit poser, that's the problem. Whatever edge you had as a 'photons on glass filmmaker' is now completely gone. The one thing you should hope for is that it wasn't your skill that was the moat but your ability to tell stories. If not then your goose is utterly cooked because those skills are now so trivial to come by they no longer serve as a barrier to entry for those that are dedicated to the art. So your fine works will drown in slop.

I use plenty of AI, I just don't go around making weird pseudo-intellectual semi-philosophical statements about it.

And as you have pivoted to "Its a really good technology/tool" from "This is an alien brain" I understand that you have completely given up on that framing.

Or maybe it fell outside your context window, lmao.

Even as a tech person I never had any use for crypto. Never heard mention of crypto outside or the tech bubble.

AI? Everyone and their dog have at least tried it, from kids in middle school to housekeepers. It’s even more common than the internet was pre 2000.

If its that great it doesn't need weird people advocating for it in comment sections pretending to be buddha or an alien intelligence from an Arthur C Clarke novel.

> Everything starts as a toy

Especially toys. Toys overwhelmingly start as toys.

You're watching someone press buttons on an mp3 player and calling it a religious experience.

What do you think humans are made of other than molecules and electrical signals?

Why do you think what a thing is made of matters? That's nothing more than it's paint job.

Your comment seemed to imply being dismissive of a computer program or some other physical system having life.

It did no such thing.

> This is the spark of fire that kicked off civilization.

How can the now influence the past?

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