I just can't get over how gleeful the author sounds in wasting compute on "an often unreasonable amount of work to search the internet and figure out an answer."

Is that the goal? Send this thing off on a wild goose chase, and hope it comes back with the right answer no matter the cost?

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simonw 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Playing with tools like this is how I learn to use them.

	▲	cmilton 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		I can definitely understand that. I just have a hard time justifying the value of learning this way at scale. Just the energy costs alone are out of hand.

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KaoruAoiShiho 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Uh, people have wasted entire lifetimes chasing wild goose. Newton and Einstein both spent the latter halves of their lives :( despite being geniuses.

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cmilton 4 days ago | parent [-]

I think the primary difference would be they didn't waste billions of dollars in their research.

	▲	AftHurrahWinch 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Isaac Newton dedicated over thirty years to the study and practice of alchemy, writing over one million words on the subject. Comparable in scale to his writings on mathematics and physics. I'd rather GDP be $1B smaller right now if it meant that Newton had spent another 30 years on physics and math.