AI replaces a single tower with millions of 5-over-1s[1]. The aggregate height, and speed of construction mind-boggling, but when each building is considered individually, not very impressive.
1. Perhaps with a handful of skyscrapers sprinkled in.
abraxas 2 hours ago|
so the post-AI landscape is software as a shanty town? That's not a bad analogy. We won't like the looks of it and it will barely function but like real life shanty towns it will function nonetheless.
archonis 1 hour ago||
Kowloon Walled City.
aaron_m04 3 hours ago||
This could've been a much better article without the strained Tower of Babel article.
4b11b4 1 hour ago||
Really liked the framing on this
jzer0cool 3 hours ago||
> the people is one, ... one language, ..., nothing will be restrained from them
Why being one (I see as collaborative) was it not desired? Interpretations? Why is it seemed *more* harmful rather than good?
dzonga 3 hours ago||
at one point - future generations - will look at people who designed unix like tools - tools that do one thing well & compose with other tools as demigods.
ares623 2 hours ago|
lol no. They'll "rediscover" it and claim themselves as demigods.
__0x01 4 hours ago||
Agents are very good at making us think the tower is rising, when in fact it is falling beneath our feet.
jadbox 3 hours ago||
This reminds me of Ted Chiang's "Tower of Babylon". You really should read it (and all of TC's works)!
overgard 4 hours ago||
I feel like this is missing the ending of "until gravity wins"
lstodd 37 minutes ago|
not gravity, enthropy.
fantasizr 4 hours ago||
ai eliminating friction is eliminating learning and understanding. this is felt with more severe consequences in K-12 writing and music.