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From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
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Subject: Re: AI (Grok) Creating New Technologies.
Date: 16 Jul 2025 13:56:41 GMT
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Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote or quoted:
>"I think it may discover new technologies as soon as later this year,
>and I would be shocked if it has not done so next year. I would expect
>Grok to, yeah, literally discover new technologies that are actually
>useful no later than next year, and maybe end of this year, and it might
>discover new physics next year, and within two years, I'd say, almost
>certainly. So, like, just let that sink in."  Elon Musk. July 2025.

  Sometimes I catch myself thinking the same way. I've got a
  few personal projects I mess around with in my free time -
  mostly little programs I've started building. I've kicked off
  a bunch of them, but they're all sitting at like 20 percent.
  - One of them's a text formatter.

  Then I'll read some thread where folks are arguing about
  how to format text and I'll find myself thinking, "Hey,
  why isn't everyone just using /my/ formatter? It handles
  all that stuff way better!" At that point I get the itch to
  jump in and drop a link to it. But that's when it hits me -
  "Wait, that thing's not even close to done yet!".

  Honestly, I might never actually finish any of these side
  projects. Getting something built out enough that it's
  really useful to other people? That's a whole different
  skill set, and I'm not sure I've got it . . .

  Feels like you end up borrowing against your future self,
  expecting you'll build it all out someday - and sometimes
  the math just doesn't add up.