LdBaringSwallow

Totally agree; op is No True Scotsman.

Because for every minute you don't spend on yourself means someone else has to pick up the slack; you are not an island.

Thermodynamics is like that.

And the rest of us would rather deal with our own lives than your preference to sit about reflecting

That's why I am all about robots doing the work; at least up to filling stores with textiles, food, building materials, and leaving everyone's "day job" to staying out the way of others who just want to experience consciousness and die.

Have worked among the people for 30ish years; started on farms, got degrees in EE/CE, worked in hardware/software; we are going in circles so drop the rhetorical pretense.

It's western vanity fueled by old allegory of religion about forever life and prosperity; my decades of experience studying applied physics and watching software engineers circumlocutions but now using fancy new JS lib! are little more than a scratched record jumping backwards to the previous groove

For anyone tasked with resolving those problems.

For anyone else it's unproductive rubber necking

Agreed. I would apply this further; stop letting 1970s and 1980s pop culture fads consume our attention; let go of Star Wars and Marvel etc etc; previous centuries headlines

Let go of software dev; as is a mechanical task from the 60s-70s

Cultural memory begets cultural conservatism

You're just restating Gödel verbatim without considering what that would entail physically; they're implicitly unsolvable as it would take forever to solve them all; the universe would experience heat death before they're all solved.

Scaling issues do not just matter when making bridges and when hosting LLMs.

Marvel should have dropped the movie today; Thanksgiving memes write themselves...

"Thankful I survived Doomsday 2026."

Why? His incompleteness work explains why software and math suck so he would already expect them to; they're rhetorical and can never fully be a closed loop body of knowledge as we can never rhetorically define the far future or far past; merely simulate rhetorically

Ergo all defined axiomatic systems have sentences about the far past and future that cannot be defined with certainty; most do not make the connection to physics. Gödel did and would 100% aware the limits exist and will always exist

Scaling laws aren't just for computers; humans lived experience does not scale infinitely through time, just approximately 2-3 generations

As I understand immutable physical truth like this played a huge role in his early research and ultimately were the forcing function that led him to incompleteness

We did have 30 years of software advancement; LLM are the next step. I would argue what we didn't have was 30 years of hardware advancement as everyone bought x86_64

Blow and coders have a hammer so all they see is nails; it didn't "solve coding" AI solved "machine state management". Totally different; human tagging/coding will still exist just at the presentation layer cause we don't need a bunch of syntax like:

def sumAllCustomerAccounts() { Some desired physical state of machine based on mathematical axioms }

AI solved naming that function (the coding with human context part) with

f() { generate a function to add all customer balances}

We moving on from 1960s and 70s machine state management, pushing context coding to the presentation layer

Blow is just doing that thing humans do where they wrap their entire identity up in who they were 30 years ago and still think that's who they are today and will be tomorrow; rotary phone companies, bowling alley equipment manufacturers... call out a high tech or even social service like religion...new generations are superseding them... circle of life Simba

Not really gonna put Blow and Carmack on a pedestal; they never invented computers or software dev. They came along in the middle of the hype. The read the manual for old machines. We're just moving on to new kinds of machines.

People flipped out over the printing press too. Nothing to see here; it's just the upper bound of the middle age generation having a mid-life crisis

Trump & most of Congress have no idea how the world works as they chose willful ignorance and fail up.

They noodle tiny decimals of percents such the financial network effects make them richer.

That’s work to them. Zero meaningful contribution. They're TV personalities who offer nothing more to humanity.