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I always wondered what it was like for people that lived through the discovery of relativity. It must have just been world changing to understand what it meant
by nemo44x 4y ago
I always wondered what it was like for people that lived through the discovery of relativity. It must have just been world changing to understand what it meant and how entire perspectives and theories were dead overnight. Just a massive change in the understanding of our existence and the potential it unlocked.
These types of things must feel similar.
- imjonse 4y agothat was much more gradual and did not affect everyday life at all. Even today most people don't know/care about the implications of relativity :)
- arlcode 4y agoI don't think relativity had the same hype associated with it. I'm finding it very difficult to differentiate between (sometimes involuntary) sales people and genuine usefulness (of which there is plenty to be clear). It is yet unclear where the conceptual and fundamental limitations of the current approach lie and I'm immediately suspicious about anyone telling me there aren't any in particular when this sentiment is based on a few hours of GPT-4 usage. We need more hard science on this. Great claims require great proofs and "AGI is imminent" is a very very very great claim. We know that these tool are pretty useful as they are right now and will have massive influence on society.