I’m sure the economy will turn around once WW3 starts, wars always fix economic problems!

I wish I was joking.

I think there’s a problem with people wanting a fully developed brand new technology right out the gate. The cell phones of today didn’t happen overnight, it started with a technology that had limitations and people innovated.

AI is a technology that has limitations, people will innovate it. Hopefully.

I think my favorite potential use case for AI is academics. There are countless numbers of journal articles that get published by students, grad students and professors, and the vast majority of those articles don’t make an impact. Very few people read them, and they get forgotten. Vast amounts of data, hypotheses and results that might be relevant to someone trying to do something good, important or novel but they will never be discovered by them. AI can help with this.

Of course there’s going to be problems that come up. Change isn’t good for everyone involved, but we have to hope that there is a net good at the end. I’m sure whoever was invested in the telegram was pretty choked when the phone showed up, and whoever was invested in the carrier pigeon was upset when the telegram showed up. People will adapt, and society will benefit. To think otherwise is the cynical take on the same subject. The glass is both half full and half empty. You get to choose your perspective on it.

Firby I’m sad, play despacito

Yup, not enough med-school slots, not enough doctors to teach more med-school classes, not enough hospitals to employ more staff back when staffing them wasn’t the problem. These issues have been decades in the making and there’s now no easy fix. If provinces had kept pace with medical infrastructure this wouldn’t be an issue today.

Eventually we’re going to end up paying the bill to get caught up, at a premium, with interest, at inflated prices, with money that doesn’t exist because instead of saving anything they gave it all away in tax cuts and subsidies. They’ll blame it all on Chretien probably.

This sounds like an interesting topic that I know nothing about, thank you giving me more to add to my reading list.