Such a good comment, I would also add how much our perception of technology lifting conditions is conflated with the increased ability of governments to steer the economy to smooth things over.
All of those problems had nothing to do with technology and everything to do with economic mismanagement. And the commies were the worst at it. The US never had famines even at the worst of the great depression.
Economic mismanagement assumes there is economic management, and this is a very recent development. I would wager that we still do not know how to manage economies well in the long run - case in point US deficit and wealth inequality.
I guess that is at the core of Google vs Oracle, they copied the API kept the implementation clean-room. It was definitvely ruled that this was fair use. If fair use applies to something as strict as re-implementing an API, I would argue it applies to something much more elusive, like cloning UI/layout.
This happened to me in elementary school. We were doing fingerpaintings using plasticine. After all the bikes were hung on the wall, mine was racing the other way... Somehow it really stuck with me.
> do have long-term memory from their training and thus act very much like someone suffering from Alzheimer’s.
Your 8th grade science teacher may be disappointed too. Drawing such analogies using unequivocal language "very much like" disregards the limited understanding of LLMs, the false analogies between computer and biological systems, and the complex nature of Alzheimer's disease (no it is not just short term memory loss, not even close, for example ability to interpret images)
Hmm.The point was that people with Alzheimers have trouble interpreting images, and obviously remain concious until the latest stages of their disease.
> remain concious until the latest stages of their disease.
Are you saying that people with advanced Alzheimers lose consciousness? That's not the case. Although it might become hard for people with advanced Alzheimers to demonstrate their consciousness, that doesn't mean that their consciousness isn't there.
