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A comment in a previous thread stuck with me said something like "AI is successful because nothing else interesting is happening".

That rings true and I suspect the bubble won't burst until something else comes along to steal the show.

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Meanwhile Claude is helping me build a robot and is also writing the code that runs its subsystems but okay. Sure, I could do it all myself(maybe?) but not nearly as quickly or in the interstitial moments of life.

Sounds more like you're helping Claude build a robot.

I have more hands and a larger context window. It's a collab(/s). But it's cool that I can do it more or less solely with that tool and not necessarily use Google or other resources(obviously for any source, from Google to the Encyclopedia Britannica, one must evaluate the quality of the information).

What are you getting out of this though? Do you think this robot is going to have some kind of positive economic impact? Will you turn it into a business? Do you anticipate it will solve a personal need, like folding your laundry for you? Because a lot of people do robot projects in their free time to learn, but you're doing it without the learning part...so what's the point?

It's a hack. Not everything has to have commercial value, not everything has to solve a need, there's no inherent purpose in anything, this is just how I choose to spend my time.

My brother built a robot when he was 14

Interesting hypothesis.

One could argue the same was true of blockchain until AI came along.

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