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That only works until it's good enough that nobody cares about the difference.



That will only happen when we have AGI and at that point the world has much bigger problems.


This is definitely one view, but not sure I buy it at all.

History is littered with things that were made orders of magnitude better, people who claimed nobody would be happy until that happened, and then nobody writ large cared .

Tech in particular has a grand history of claiming we need to produce the technically best thing, but in practice, the market almost always chooses somewhere in the range of useful products, which is not the same at all - the technically best thing has rarely, if ever, become the market leader.




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