> Just remember what you have?

This is one of the stupidest things I have read on this site

hamdingers 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is how billions of people across the planet manage their pantries. Get off this site and talk to real people more often.

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raincole an hour ago | parent [-]

Billions of people don't use calendar apps so they're useless; just remember your meetings.

Billions of people don't use todo list apps so they're useless; just remember what to do.

Billions of people don't use post-its apps so they're useless; just remember what you're going to write down.

Billions of people don't have cars; just walk.

You can dismiss any invention since industrial revolution with this logic.

	▲	louiereederson 25 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The point, as I noted below, is that this is an impractical solution. You can justify the value of any ridiculous invention by comparing it to a world-changing invention.
	▲	hamdingers 21 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You have soundly defeated that strawman, well done.

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ulrashida 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not the kindest take (and unlikely true).

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louiereederson 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Do you have that much trouble remembering what is in your fridge to consider this the stupidest thing you have ever read on this site? I feel superhuman.

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pythonaut_16 an hour ago | parent [-]

GP might be hyperbolic but come on.

Common internet tropes include both "look at this forgotten jar that's been in the back of my fridge since 1987" and "doesn't it suck how much food we waste in the modern world?"

Nearly every modern invention could be dismissed with this attitude. "Why do you need a typewriter? Just write on paper like the rest of the world does."

"Why do you need a notebook? Just remember everything like the rest of us do."

	▲	louiereederson 32 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The solution being discussed involves someone removing everything from their fridge, photographing it and paying for an LLM to process it into a database of sorts. Further, in order for this database to be complete they need to repeat this process every time something changes in their fridge. Also will the LLM be able to tell if my carton of milk is 10% empty? I do not disagree that food waste is a problem, but the solution seems laughably impractical, and the default (memory) seems far better suited to the task. I can confidently say that the net value creation is not comparable to the written word.