Things have improved, people's standards are just significantly higher. Remember when we didn't even have clean drinking water? Nope, wasn't alive back then.
jaykrown
joined 9 months ago
The bubble is irrelevant, that's just capitalism being inefficient. When the dot com bubble popped it's not like the internet died. We got things like Netflix and Amazon only after the bubble popped.
I don't hate AI, and I think broadly hating AI is pretty dumb. It's a tool that can be used for beneficial things when used responsibly. It can also be used stupidly and for bad things. It's the person using it who is the decider.
Twenty years is a very long time, also "good" is relative. I give it about 2-3 years until we can run a model as powerful as Opus 4.1 on a laptop.