> I have some idea of what the way forward is going to look like but I don't want to accelerate the development of such a dangerous technology so I haven't told anyone about it.

Ever since "AI" was named at Dartmouth, there have been very smart people thinking that their idea will be the thing which makes it work this time. Usually, those ideas work really well in-the-small (ELIZA, SHRDLU, Automated Mathematician, etc.), but don't scale to useful problem sizes.

So, unless you've built a full-scale implementation of your ideas, I wouldn't put too much faith in them if I were you.

Far more common are ideas that don't work on any scale at all.

If you have something that gives a sticky +5% at 250M scale, you might have an actual winner. Almost all new ML ideas fall well short of that.

If someone else comes along and makes the exact claim I just made, I won't believe it either

Did you try any of your shit at any scale at all?

999999 times out of a million you'd be right.

But, I shouldn't have said anything.

Let me guess, you have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

Well it kind of sucks honestly because im never going to get any sort of recognition, but that's partly by choice and partly because I don't have the right personal connections. I 100% understand why all of you think I'm a significant fool. Thats ok. Like i said, im burying the idea. But its obvious enough that someone else will discover it soon enough.

You literally see no irony here? You are doubling, tripling down on some idea you won't even vaguely describe to people, but you are so utterly convinced that it's right you don't appear to even admit the possibility that your idle thoughts could be wrong, or just silly. Frankly it sounds delusional and you should question yourself more often. If you're so afraid of being right that you won't even write the idea down to have another person look at it for fear it will somehow set the world on fire because of its rightness, then you should seriously consider talking to a therapist. If that comes across as an ad hominem, it isn't, and it isn't meant as an insult or a dismissal of your idea--you've actually offered no idea. Frankly, you should be a little embarrassed as you've done nothing but grouse about how smart you are, and people react negatively to that. Puffing gets us nowhere except drawing attention to yourself and gave us no new ideas or thoughts to discuss, except your ego. I'd recommend you question yourself more and talk to some people you trust about whatever it is you think you discovered.

Tell you what, here's a story from my last job.

I was hired on to help run these experiments with a machine they were trying to perfect. They wanted to do all this stuff with running two machines in parallel, dumping the refuse from one into another machine, all kinds of silly stuff.

I looked at it and in a few minutes I sketched in my notebook a solution to their problem that would achieve the maximum theoretical yield without all these wacky experiments.

But then what would be my job? I was hired to run these experiments not solve their whole problem in 5 minutes. So I didn't tell them. I was getting paid so i didn't care if they were wasting time. I'm a smiley little trans woman anyway, they wouldn't have listened. I did work out the math though on my own.

A few months later, a team of phds at a university we were working with hit on a rudimentary form of the same idea, so at that point I revealed to the boss, oh, look I've worked out the math for that already. And I wrote up the code, and we hit the maximum theoretical yield and it ran 100x faster computationally, and i got a pat on the back. But the reason they listened was because a man with a degree said it.

Why would I bother giving them ideas if they won't listen anyway? If i had given them the answer months earlier, I would not have gotten any kind of bonus even in the unlikely event that I had been taken seriously.

So now of course youre all telling me im insane, and thats fine because honestly I have no incentive to give you answers ahead of time. Go suck eggs. Figure shit out on your own.

> If i had given them the answer months earlier, I would not have gotten any kind of bonus even in the unlikely event that I had been taken seriously.

You guaranteed that you wouldn't get recognition by keeping the idea to yourself. Your victimization was by your own design, and it stayed where it started: in your head. And ironically you were the one being passive agressive and showing bias towards your coworkers.

Oh honey. I wasn't born with this attitude you know- it was beaten into me.

Nothing is punished so swiftly and severely as outshining your boss or making him look stupid.

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