if it doesnt take off, it dies.

if it does take off and becomes a relevant currency of some sort, it will need improving. if it needs improving how far are we willing to go? does some alternative system fork off to handle severity of provenance concern?

what happens when AI action becomes indistinguishable from human action? what happens when sticking computers in your head becomes vogue?

if it takes off and fills a small niche, maybe thats the best future.

Like I said, cool idea, but seemingly very cursed from the get go.

Say you're studying something: STEM topics, Liberal arts topics, a codebase, a textbook, etc XYZ. You're in the flow of discussing a main topic. Invariably, the main topic is built on top of atomic subelements. For example, discussions about Bonds invariably invoke discussions of Present Value, Yield to Maturity.

The branching is because you have a side query that is a potentially unbounded stack of "wait, but why this?" You highlight a segment of text in the current chat, click a button that pops a new conversation over to the right, and continue your "related but off-topic question." You have both context threads in view at once: the main topic & the side topic. You should be able to do this N layers deep.

The alternative is that you get to play scrollbar warrior in the current regime of LLM-designs. It's not really conducive to deep understanding.

This kind of conversation applies naturally to software development too: "wait, so we're working on feature X/refactor X/bugfix X, but that requires us to answer this subthread. And sure these days Claude Fable can probably do it all with the right harness, but does that mean you _understand_ what it just did?

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wait, are you doing that? Love JUCE btw

Maybe PRs these days need to "test" the human? "Explain how this code works, without AI, or it gets rejected."

The joke, of course, is that I imagine a good 75% of the reviews would be "it's shit."

Let's talk about Billionaire Alignment, Economic alignment, Human alignment.

Classware should be M.A.D. -- in that it shouldnt even happen.

Thanks for my next horror shortfilm plot. Twist: he's the protagonist

The plan is to replace the 99% with machines. It doesn't matter to the 1% if you survive their glorious, great filter.

The great filter is billionaires. It's a billionaire control problem, not a superintelligence control problem. You're livestock. There's a better ox and cart that just pulled down the gravel road.