Hacker News with Generative AI: Progress

A pro-science, pro-progress, techno-optimistic middle school health book (moreisdifferent.blog)
"This is a remarkable age. It is an age of skyscrapers, submarines, airplanes, dirigibles, phonographs, safety razors, radios, electric lights, steam and hot-water heat, gas stoves, vacuum cleaners, and other wonderful inventions. Many diseases have been conquered, and life has been lengthened. Life has been made more comfortable and in most ways safer. Such progress has been made that today the ordinary American workman enjoys more comforts and opportunities that were denied kings and queens a few centuries ago."
Technology, Science, Education, Health, Progress
11 points by paulpauper 4 days ago | 0 comments
FrontierMath: A benchmark for evaluating advanced mathematical reasoning in AI (epochai.org)
FrontierMath presents hundreds of unpublished, expert-level mathematics problems that specialists spend days solving. It offers an ongoing measure of AI complex mathematical reasoning progress.
Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, Benchmarking, Research, Progress
185 points by sshroot 24 days ago | 103 comments
The Intelligence Age (samaltman.com)
In the next couple of decades, we will be able to do things that would have seemed like magic to our grandparents.
Artificial Intelligence, Future, Technology, Progress
343 points by firloop 71 days ago | 425 comments
Why good things often don't lead to better outcomes (danfrank.ca)
Many people believe that when something good happens, positive outcomes naturally follow — but I’m here to explain why that’s often not the case. In complex systems, improvements or advancements frequently set off a chain of reactions that can undermine the original benefits. This creates a paradox where progress in one domain often doesn’t lead to better results.
Complex Systems, Paradox, Progress, Unexpected Outcomes
9 points by danielmichaelyc 75 days ago | 0 comments
The Accelerationist Playbook (asomo.co)
Tech isn’t a relaxant. It’s an accelerant. Automation technologies, whether they take the form of AI, digital payments or Uber, primarily make our lives faster, rather than easier, but we’re flooded with stories that present this acceleration as unstoppable progress.
Technology, Automation, Society, Progress
5 points by davidryal 76 days ago | 0 comments
The Mystics of Progress (2023) (isaacyoung.substack.com)
Philosophy, Progress, Substack
11 points by KqAmJQ7 99 days ago | 11 comments
Why Technological Progress Is Now Reversing (honest-broker.com)
Technology, Progress, Society
13 points by paulpauper 105 days ago | 0 comments