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the quote continues (loose translation): "There will be things that people will look at and say: 'they are new!', but these were here before us. Since forever.
by amitport 4y ago
the quote continues (loose translation):
"There will be things that people will look at and say: 'they are new!', but these were here before us. Since forever."
So, IMO the author did realize that there will be "new" things, the premise is that these things are already part of our world, and the process and mechanism of discovery is repeated. In the human perception (and LLM's ?) there is only "rehashed" knowledge in a way, nothing is really new.
- kaba0 4y agoThat doesn’t take into account emergent properties, though. I don’t see how “general purpose computers” have always been here before us — many things can compute (one proper, but not too useful definition of a computer is something that represents a computable function by upon giving it an input in a specific format, it will give an output that can be interpreted as a result. E.g. a sundial is a computer), and none of the primitives are unique (logical gates can be made from many things), but their unique composition into a programmable computer is a novel invention.