Excerpts from Machines of Loving Grace by the CEO of Anthropic

…“I think their rate of discovery could be increased by 10x or more if there were a lot more talented, creative researchers. Or, put another way, I think the returns to intelligence are high for these discoveries, and that everything else in biology and medicine mostly follows from them.”

Yes, it’s mostly not (just) about doing what we already do… just faster. But, having enough brain juice (left) to be open to doing other things.

“While that might sound crazy, the fact is that civilization has successfully navigated major economic shifts in the past: from hunter-gathering to farming, farming to feudalism, and feudalism to industrialism. I suspect that some new and stranger thing will be needed, and that it’s something no one today has done a good job of envisioning.”

I try to believe that cost of executing and applying “solved problems” will go down eventually with machines taking over the replication part.

It’s then up to humans to pick up new challenges. This could be improving lifespan, brain capacity, low latency and efficient modes of communication, transport, energy efficiency, climate control/repair, food and water scarcity, etc.

To know about what lies beyond the horizon (which appears to be approaching quite rapidly), we must practice research ourselves, observe the work of researchers right now. What they think / dream about.

Human creativity will have to be put to the test to find meaning on this pale blue dot .

~ updated at: 2024-10-13T12:30:03.176Z

I’m (obviously) not there yet but doing stuff like this makes you competent.

You’re either doing it for fun/satisfaction/requirement (or) you’re doing it to learn.

Either way you’ll gain enough skills to pick more ambitious projects.

https://twitter.com/twitter/status/1845186558414159875/

~ updated at: 2024-10-13T09:13:33.290Z