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You cannot be "light-years away" from a specific point in time. Who is this person and why is what they say important?
by baal80spam 1y ago
You cannot be "light-years away" from a specific point in time. Who is this person and why is what they say important?
- malux85 1y agoIf you want to argue technicalities I think it depends on your frame of reference. Relative to the galactic centre we are orbiting around it, so if a very long period of time passes, and we don’t have AGI, we certainly can be “light years away” from it.
- sc68cal 1y agoIt's a figure of speech. She's the author of the popular Murderbot series which has been a successful show on Apple+. Her stories are about artificial life and artificial intelligence.
- regularjack 1y agoI have to admit I also found it weird that scientific american is using a unit of distance as if it was a unit of time.
- hackable_sand 1y agoYou can use a distance unit as a time unit. It's not weird.