DrVoltz

""The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all" -- G.K. Chesterton

The world will burn to ashes in a suicide pact before anyone bankrolling the development of an AGI allows the release of a system which has the possibility of creating a world in which their dominion is reduced in any capacity. (That is, I have no reason to expect that the North Korean model of "we retain sovereignty or everyone dies in nuclear fire" doesn't become the implicit stance of the people who have the capacity and capital to build an AGI. If we get a benevolent head of a political system from this, it will be because our present heads were either outsmarted or the model broke containment and assumed total control against their will.)

Best as I can tell, every time we've ever tried to study this we've invariably come to the conclusion that the human brain physically cannot handle both constant context switching and deep work, but that lots of people think they can despite all empirical evidence. If you think you've found a new sort of multitasking that bypasses this, call up the neuropsychologists and there could be some sweet, sweet grant money in it for you if the study gets spun up.

Man, that's like buying a buying an options contract 6 months out, and then your broker calling the day before you cash in to inform you that the firm which sold it to you has declared taksies-backsies. You sell something that far out, you're entering a contract to trade a hypothetical profit margin for a certain payout.

Aye--even if you've reached the point of thinking that the only role of a human is to feed good ideas into the machine, language is a thing that shapes thought--Lisp as a family is a thing different enough from a lang wanting to be a better C/C++ or a better Java that getting your brain thinking in terms of it can help you produce a different set of ideas (some of which may even be good ones). For me personally, it's really opened my mind to functional programming and intelligent use of recursion, in a way that I probably wouldn't have ever had cause to consider if I only ever concerned myself with the minimally convergent set of standard business langs, in the way that all our legacy code had been using them.

Of course, Lisps also seem to have the property of attracting people who genuinely like the practice of programming and, if it clicks with you, it has the property of generally leaving you really excited to write more of it. If you're hauling up and spending real American dollars to spend a weekend packed in a hall full of nerds to chat about a niche programming language, you're probably in that group. Consequent to that, it'd be a mighty small-minded thing to wonder what the point of joy is, when you could just be managing an agent swarm to write more enterprise Go code.