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Jitendra Malik, Computer Vision fame, calls it "the fallacy of the successful first step". Look ma, I can leap! It's only a matter of time till we get to the mo
by sn41 6y ago
Jitendra Malik, Computer Vision fame, calls it "the fallacy of the successful first step". Look ma, I can leap! It's only a matter of time till we get to the moon.
- beambot 6y agoTo be fair: if you measure the cosmological time from the first human step to man walking on the moon, it was barely the blink of an eye...
- coldtea 6y agoSure. But why should we compare it to the cosmological time, and not to e.g. civilization time? Or homo sapiens time? In which case it took 100s to 1000s of lifetimes between the step and the moon...