Re: Emigration from Usenet [was: Re: PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars ...]

On Fri, 9 Aug 2024, The Real Bev wrote:

On 8/7/24 12:57 AM, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> writes:

On 8/6/24 6:55 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:

The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote or quoted:

What happens when there are no more toolmakers?

Well, if by "toolmakers" you mean those devs cranking out text
editors, search engines, or AI chatbots: We're swimming in them these
days, more than ever before in human history! So I'd say: I'll cross
that bridge when I come to it, if we ever actually run low on those
folks. (Sure, some tech fields are hurting for talent, but that's
probably not because of the new AI chatbots hitting the scene.)

 I mean people who have serious work to do and know how to make a
computer do it for them.  REAL experts.  If there are only people who
know how to use the tools already provided for them, who will make NEW
tools?

 Obviously nobody. But it’s a hypothetical situation which isn’t about to
happen.

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I'm not so sure.  I look at the general dumbing down of our (and apparently non-USA) population and wonder if there are enough intelligent people left to make a difference.  Look at the schools. Loot at the governments. Look at the media.  Is there any reason to be optimistic?
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In my case... short term no, long term, yes. We've survived, as a species, world wars, famines, pestilence. Anything we're seeing today is nothing in comparison.
Yes, we're perhaps at a local minimum, but give it a decade or two, and we'll again sprint for a local maximum. =)