A Man Who Invented the Future

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22 points

apollinaire

3 days ago


6 comments

randallsquared 2 hours ago

This essay is--oddly--both threadbare and meandering, and has turns of phrase that look like they were kept from an earlier, tighter version, such as the second sentence's "may have [...] but by".

  • barney54 37 minutes ago

    I read some AI slop earlier today and then read this. The AI slop was better than whatever this is.

    • 4ndrewl 10 minutes ago

      You might not be the target audience for this, and that's ok.

    • simianwords 33 minutes ago

      Now that people know what ai slop is, they start having higher expectations from prose because vacuous articles like these might be misconstrued as slop

shevy-java 2 hours ago

Alan Kay.

(Ok ok ... the real quote is actually: "The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Invent It", and I actually think he also had that quote from someone else, earlier, but I forgot the name.)

barney54 39 minutes ago

The article concludes, stating that LLMs are the “apotheosis of knowledge stripped of animating spirit and reduced to mere utility.” Maybe, but LLMs have far more utility than this directionless essay.