Most notably Paul Krugman Nobel winning economist in 98: "By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s."

Predicting the future is hard.

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voncheese a day ago | parent | next [-]

Hadn't seen this quote before, amazing.

Also goes to show how hard it is to predict anything that is a massive change - these levels of changes are so infrequent that we can't rely on priors to predict the future.

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megagpt1 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What will be LLMs' social media?

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setopt 9 hours ago | parent [-]

More or less the same as social media but for agents, perhaps?

When I want to book an airline ticket in the future, I expect my LLM agent to contact the airline LLM agent, and the two to discuss options and negotiate a deal on my behalf.

	▲	_superposition_ 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Negotiate? For an airline ticket? When's the last time a human did that and why would an agent? There's a price, and if you don't like it you go to a competitor you don't call customer service and negotiate? Who in their right mind would let an LLM set prices?