alt Hacker NewsI think the parent’s main point is that even if LLMs sustain exponential advancement, that doesn’t guarantee that humanity’s advancement will mimic technology’s growth curve.
In other words, it’s possible to have rapid technological advancement without significant improvement/benefit to society.
> In other words, it’s possible to have rapid technological advancement without significant improvement/benefit to society.
This is certainly true in many ways already.
On the other hand, it's also complicated, because society/culture seems to be downstream of technology; we might not be able to advance humanity in lock step or ahead of technology, simply because advancing humanity is a consequence of advancing technology.