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As a computer scientist who is oppositional to AGI boom-bubble mania, it was easy to decry the Nobel in physics. But, contextually given who Murray Gell-Mann wa

by ggm 2y ago

As a computer scientist who is oppositional to AGI boom-bubble mania, it was easy to decry the Nobel in physics. But, contextually given who Murray Gell-Mann was and what field he was in (astrophysics) I feel a very strong Gell-Mann Effect here because I am happy to accept THIS use of computational systems to advance (bio)chemistry is worthy, and I find myself wondering why I am so uncritical about it?

tim333 2y ago
Alpha fold gives a definite advance in our understanding of the world, chatgpt and similar not so much?
- ggm 2y ago
  I'd take this on advice. Anything else for me would be post-hoc rationale to what was simply taken on trust!