1 pointby shoman30034 hours ago4 comments
  • retrac4 hours ago
    Speech is not the same as writing. It is not interchangeable. It's not easy to compose writing aloud. Speech is a poor interface for manipulating words like that. Have you ever seen something like an ex tempore speech or panel discussion or radio interview transcribed in writing? It can be almost incomprehensible.

    They are different processes. You do want to see the words laid out. And you want to point at them. Drag them around. Drag and drop.

    > The 3 generations that spent their entire life behind a PC in the 20/21st century will be seen as crazy as the soldiers who spend all day underground to click a button inside a missile silo.

    our hunched backs and strained eyes are noble signs of the craft which go back thousands of years

    the remains of Ancient Egyptian scribes show neck vetebrae wear and repetitive strain type injury to the wrist and thumb

    edit: for the curious https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-63549-z

    • shoman30034 hours ago
      craft is overrated. you clearly are a writer, which is noble, but most people aren't they just want to communicate as best as possible fast - the llm can just take their rambling and insert a summary.
  • hn_acker3 hours ago
    > In 20 years; if we are still using a keyboard & a mouse on a daily basis - it would be as awful as not getting to superintelligence.

    20 years from now, I do not anticipate having any more control over a "superintelligence" than I have today, nor do I think that a superintelligence which could serve my needs (never mind my desires) as well as a computer-mouse-keyboard-internet setup currently does will come to exist.

  • ankurdhama4 hours ago
    Give me a voice input method where no one else can hear me even when they are nearby.
    • vunderba3 hours ago
      This. It's amazing how many people fail to figure this out. There are plenty of environments (coffee shops, libraries, etc.) where bloviating out loud is considered a breach of basic etiquette.
    • shoman30034 hours ago
      i think it's a safe bet that in 10 years talking to Ai would be seen as normal, its already starting to be normalized. regarding privacy, at work it might be solvable, outside i am not sure.
  • GroksBarnacles4 hours ago
    This is such a weird post. Nobody thinks thats normal for primates.