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>The equivalent in engineering would be to throw over trees and rocks in the hope of building a bridge. Imagine if aliens dropped a machine learning computer o
by gerbilly 8y ago
>The equivalent in engineering would be to throw over trees and rocks in the hope of building a bridge.
Imagine if aliens dropped a machine learning computer on earth in the 17th century.
Maybe we'd have never bothered to derive the laws of classical mechanics.
- taeric 8y agoI don't follow. Classical mechanics are still very useful, no?
- gerbilly 8y agoYes, but we might have never created metal models and theories if we had a magical machine that could predict the outcomes of physical systems. The machines might have replaced classical mechanics, but the downside is that the machine would be a black box, and we would never really understood how it derived its results.
- taeric 8y agoFair. That assumes we wouldn't try and understand the black box. I suspect somebody would have, but I have nothing to base that suspicion.