Moore's Law: Chips double in power every 2 years
Wirth's Law: Software slows down faster than hardware speeds up
My Law: Every Electron app uses 8GB of RAM to display text that would fit in a .txt file
We are losing.
If I genuinely believed I was 18 months away from superintelligence that could solve cancer, I would probably not be pivoting to horny chatbots, but that's just me (a person with priorities)
Things that are fake:
- Alpha males (debunked by the original researcher)
- MSG causing headaches (never replicated)
- Learning styles (no evidence)
Things that are real:
- People will believe anything if it confirms their priors