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0 pointslelanthran2mo ago0 comments

> The thing is, agents aren’t going away. So if Bob can do things with agents, he can do things.

"Being able to deliver using AI" wasn't the point of the article. If it was the point, your comment would make sense.

The point of the program referred to in the article is not to deliver results, but to deliver an Alice. Delivering a Bob is a failure of the program.

Whether you think that a Bob+AI delivers the same results is not relevant to the point of the article, because the goal is not to deliver the results, it's to deliver an Alice.

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sd92mo ago· 4 in thread

I am aware of that - I was adding something along the lines of: I don’t think people care if we deliver Alices any more.

bigfishrunning2mo ago

People never cared about delivering Alices; they were an implementation detail. I think the article argues that they're still an important one, but one that isn't produced automatically anymore

wiseowise2mo ago

The article is talking about science research in the context of astrophysics, not coding sweatshops.

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lelanthranOP2mo ago

> I am aware of that - I was adding something along the lines of: I don’t think people care if we deliver Alices any more.

That's irrelevant to the goal of the program - they care. Once they stop caring, they'd shut that program down.

Maybe it would be replaced with a new program that has the goal of delivering Bobs+AI, but what would be the point? I mean, the article explained in depth that there is no market for the results currently, so what would be the point of efficiently generating those results?

The market currently does not want the results, so replacing the current program with something that produces Bobs+AI would be for... what, exactly?

sd92mo ago

There’s no market for the results, but there was a market for Alices, because they were the only people who could produce similar results historically. Now maybe there’s less of a market for Alices. Yes, maybe that means the program disappears.

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