From: bashley101@gmail.com   
      
   On 8/9/24 1:28 PM, D wrote:   
   >    
   >    
   > On Fri, 9 Aug 2024, The Real Bev wrote:   
   >    
   >> On 8/7/24 12:57 AM, Richard Kettlewell wrote:   
   >>> The Real Bev  writes:   
   >>>> On 8/6/24 6:55 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:   
   >>>>> The Real Bev  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.   
   >>   
   >> 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?   
   >>   
   >    
   > 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.   
      
   We've never had as many people on earth as we have today, and there will   
   be more.  At least in cities the big problem is just too many people,    
   most of them pretty stupid.   
      
   Still, I have to believe that smarter/cooler heads will prevail.  Knock    
   wood...   
      
   > Yes, we're perhaps at a local minimum, but give it a decade or two, and   
   > we'll again sprint for a local maximum. =)   
      
   I don't see a mechanism...   
      
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