I think so. I was but a tyke in that era, but I clearly remember my uncle bitterly complaining at the time: "We can put a man on the moon, but we still can't measure the nutrient levels in vegetables with sufficient accuracy!"

Life is so much better now.

I don't think the OP's point was that the solutions are not ever useful, but the "nobody cared for a long time" part. If no one cares about a problem, then no one is spending their time trying to solve it. Whether or not it may be useful in some way is not the point, but if no humans are trying to solve it, then humans are not going to solve it.

So now we have AI that will simply focus on whatever it is told to focus on, looking at problems esoteric enough that no one wanted to waste time on them, and finishing some of them.

You're missing the point here entirely, and ironically you are actually providing counter-evidence.

It appears that ChatGPT, etc, are taking information provided to them by people like you in the form of conversing with the agent and providing files, and using that information to generate output for others. This was shown where a mathematical solution ChatGPT came up with was pretty much exactly like an unpublished solution that had been discussed with ChatGPT by a couple researchers

Do you really think you are the only person in the world discussing that particular thing with the AI agent? You say you're very familiar with the literature in that field. Has your brain literally been built upon every word of that information that has ever been published, like an LLM? Of course not. So it doesn't matter how familiar you think you are with the literature, an LLM's "database" of that literature is beyond anything you could achieve.

Your example does not prove the LLM didn't connect existing dots, or produce that solution from existing information, either published or unpublished that was provided to it in chat sessions like yours.

Kinda like a /. post.

As I told you clearly, not changing the clock kills MORE people.

So fuck yourself.

If you had any critical thinking skills, you'd realize that my original point applies not only to keeling over, but also to feeling unwell.

More feeble people would suffer throughout the year with either permanent DST or standard time than the current one bad night in March. (Which, BTW, could be totally avoided by planning ahead and adjusting your bedtime a few minutes per day in the preceding week.)

Biology matches DST adjustments more than a fixed clock. Most everyone woke up with the sun from the dawn of humanity until the late 19th century, and adjusting the clock for the seasons stays closer to that.

Then I suggest you never travel east or west by more than a few miles. You seem feeble.

I looked into this earlier this year. 100% of those surveyed want the annual time changes to stop, so the time is the same year-round.

However there is almost an exact 50 / 50 split of which way should be the permanent way. So 50% of folks will be unhappy whichever one is chosen.

You know what's aligned even more with circadian biology?

Keep the current system, get up off your ass, and change your clocks twice per year without whinging like a precious snowflake.

That way you you don't have to deal either with the sun beating down on you while you try to sleep at 4am or with your poor children getting run over in the dark on their way to school.

Sure, a couple of codgers might keel over in march, but they were probably gonna die soon anyway. It's much harder to measure the statistics of all the other people who would die steadily throughout the year due to the aforementioned issues, as well as similar problems caused by a static clock that doesn't adjust at all to when the sun actually rises. However, I would bet good money that it would add up to far more casualties overall.

For some reason, I seem to be in a small minority on this issue, though. It's probably because everybody would rather believe in a solution to the problems of living on a tilted axis that's clear, simple, and wrong.

With permanent DST we won't get the stories twice a year.

The difference is that if you pay people to monkey around with things, you get a non-revocable perpetual license to the result. With license rental, you get a perpetual bill. It's the same rent trap as individuals get stuck in but with less excuses.

Yes, and the reason is that they stupidly painted themselves into a corner and never thought about an exit strategy. Had they been thinking about the possibility that they might one day need to migrate from the beginning, it would be much cheaper to do so now.

That's the thing about painting yourself into a corner, a little better planning at the start can always avoid it with little to no additional effort.

They'll need the money to settle all the resulting lawsuits.

People don't read a lot of things that they agree to, especially if it's 20,000 words in a postage stamp-sized text box on the new toy they just turned on. However, anybody who's not an idiot realizes that most everything in an agreement that they haven't read is against their interests, and plans accordingly. I personally always look for binding arbitration agreements and make sure to opt out of those whenever possible.

Oddly enough, the Anthropic TOS and privacy policy actually aren't all that obtuse and can be skimmed in a few minutes. They make it clear that they'll be looking for problems with what you upload and what kinds of problems those might be. Like I said, you can easily avoid all that by using a paper notebook for your diary.