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Everybody learns psychological arithmetic in school, however no canine does it anymore.
Oh, if I might speak to my outdated math trainer once more. “You will by no means have a calculator with you.”
It would not matter the way you method that info, folks would suppose you have been loopy in 1991 should you instructed them in what type elements we will entry all the things obtainable.
Whether or not that is on the watch or the web was not very related imo. That you’d inform that 10 years later everybody had a cell and 20 years later everybody would have a type of huge, clunky, pocket-sized PCs with usable speeds.
Developments are additionally accelerating, the desktop/laptop computer took greater than 20 years to turn into so dominant in most households and workplaces. Smartphones did not even want 10 years to do this.
The dialogue concerning the new AIs is similar to the discussions about cellphones and the web within the Nineteen Nineties.
Yup, the world nonetheless sucks rather a lot. However for all that, it is actually, actually… rather a lot much less shitty than some other level in all of human historical past. It is actually sick how a lot better 99% of the inhabitants is now in comparison with 50, 100 or * years in the past.
The worldwide dying toll from starvation has decreased from 15% to <1% of the world's inhabitants over the previous 50 years! In Africa issues stabilized round 2000 and issues received a bit worse, however issues have not gotten a lot better on many fronts in lots of elements of the world during the last 20 years.
You’ll at all times have struggle. Whether or not the US and Russia try this now, or the UK and NL prior to now, the Portuguese and Spaniards of their interval(s), China vs EU or one thing like that sooner or later.
Even with all of the crap happening on the earth proper now (Ukraine vs Russia is certainly not the one one with a variety of deaths)… the dying toll from struggle has by no means been as little as it has been prior to now 600 years. 25 years. https://www3.nd.edu/~dhow…ofpercent20Deathpercent20inpercent20War.pdf
Poverty has additionally been rising at a reasonably fast tempo within the Netherlands for years. The outdated the Aristocracy appears to be again in a brand new type. Prosperity was on the earth, nevertheless it strongly appears that round 2000 we now have been knocked again from “distributing all the things extra pretty and extra” to rising variations between wealthy and poor all around the world, prosperity is centralizing once more.
Similar to my n=1 opinion, discrimination within the office and in on a regular basis life has solely elevated since ~2000. Most likely as a result of I used to be youthful, nevertheless it was such a non-issue within the 80s and 90s. Constructive position fashions of various origins abounded (simply have a look at the cartoons of that point, or the rock bands and hollywood films), folks of various backgrounds have been ‘regular’. (there have been individuals who did not suppose it was ‘regular’, however my homosexual uncles have been strolling hand in hand and kissing simply very flamboyantly down the road within the 90s… Even within the bible belt the place there have been nonetheless individuals who noticed them with an indirect appeared into the attention, however not more than that. I feel we as humanity have reached 1 or different tipping level. Due to your response, we’ll search round a bit extra and delve into the numbers, foi. We’re there worldwide, virtually all of them, usually simply worse than 20 years in the past.
Possibly AI will imply rather a lot right here and I am a bit afraid that ChatGPT was simply invented 30-40 years too late to have a great and constructive long-term influence on human growth.
