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I love programming CNC machines; I am a terrible carpenter. Someone still has to tell the LLMs what to build, specify design constraints and goals, etc
Yes, the easy part is still there.
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Out of curiousity, can you share a human invention that is not merely scaling things that were decades or centuries old at the time? Fire? The wheel? Archimedes screw, maaaaybe?
Electricity, RF communication, LASERS, Transistors....
Electricity runs from simple batteries (600 BCE) to today’s power grids.
RF was predicted but not demonstrated by Maxwell in the 1860’s. His work built on Faraday’s (1840’s) and Coulomb’s (1780’s). Coulomb built on Franklin and Newton, among others. Or do you mean Marconi and Tesla, who merely implemented what Maxwell predicted?
The same is true for lasers and transistors but it’s tedious. There was no single “back in the day people invented things from whole cloth” moment.
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No, not work in Spain, or at least not from cellular
Well, maybe more accurate "No, not for me" as I literally just stated it does work for at least me, and I'm in Spain :) Seems we can conclude it may or may not work in Spain, maybe depending on the ISP? I'm on Vodafone FWIW.
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> But Terminator failed on a basic premise: Skynet becoming self-aware. A strange claim. Why do you think that? > The future seems more like … Oh, so Terminator failed because it didn’t match a different fictional speculation about the future?
We are in "the future" relative to both works. The current intelligence threatening our planet is an unconscious token predictor, much more like the hostile non-entity in Blindsight (which even speaks to humans via token prediction) than the mechanical persons in Terminator 2.
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Electricity, RF communication, LASERS, Transistors....
What specific inventions in those areas? Electricity runs from simple batteries (600 BCE) to today’s power grids. RF was predicted but not demonstrated by Maxwell in the 1860’s. His work built on Faraday’s (1840’s) and Coulomb’s (1780’s). Coulomb built on Franklin and Newton, among others. Or do you mean Marconi and Tesla, who merely implemented what Maxwell predicted? The same is true for lasers and transistors but…
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Electricity, RF communication, LASERS, Transistors....
What specific inventions in those areas? Electricity runs from simple batteries (600 BCE) to today’s power grids. RF was predicted but not demonstrated by Maxwell in the 1860’s. His work built on Faraday’s (1840’s) and Coulomb’s (1780’s). Coulomb built on Franklin and Newton, among others. Or do you mean Marconi and Tesla, who merely implemented what Maxwell predicted? The same is true for lasers and transistors but…