Aviation is a few percent of global emissions. All aviation.

It’s probably the hardest thing to replace but if we can’t we will be okay.

Long haul trucking and shipping and remote site power are probably the next hardest things, and maybe coal for metallurgy, but these are also small compared to emissions from electricity generation and routine car transit. The big sources can be completely converted.

We love solutions to housing that sound good but won’t work, like rent control and subsidizing demand. Building more is unpopular because it would actually work.

The same goes for homelessness. Feel good sound good solutions are popular. Housing the homeless is not.

BTW I have this weird crazy hypothesis that there might be a connection between homelessness and insufficient housing supply. Like, people not in a home, and not enough homes. I know it’s a stretch.

Sometimes I feel like there are other problems like this that we don’t really want to solve but want to pretend to solve.

It’s not really possible to gate keep. What are you going to do? Forbid people from publishing things you think are dumb?

What this author and anyone who agrees could do is create curated directories. There’s already some of these in the form of the “awesome ____” lists.

I’ve been thinking for years that the time might be right to resurrect a curated directory site modeled after the old school Yahoo. Back then the advent of good search quickly rendered that obsolete, but today we’ve come full circle and there’s a need for signal to be plucked out of the noise.

I'm not saying there is no latent reasoning capability. It's there. It just seems to be that the memory and lookup component is much more useful and powerful.

To me intelligence describes something much more capable than what I see in these things, even the bleeding edge ones. At least so far.

That's really what these are: something analogous to JPEG for language, and queryable in natural language.

Tangent: I was thinking the other day: these are not AI in the sense that they are not primarily intelligence. I still don't see much evidence of that. What they do give me is superhuman memory. The main thing I use them for is search, research, and a "rubber duck" that talks back, and it's like having an intern who has memorized the library and the entire Internet. They occasionally hallucinate or make mistakes -- compression artifacts -- but it's there.

So it's more AM -- artificial memory.

Edit: as a reply pointed out: this is Vannevar Bush's Memex, kind of.