Grant Sanderson: belief

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…I want to go back to a question from earlier. Just as AI has crossed this threshold, this important benchmark of being able to connect existing ideas to come up with a new discovery or prove or disprove something, we’re like, “Okay, but what’s the next thing?” There’s a lot more to do on that one, by the way. Just because a couple lightning bolts have been thrown… I think there’s this flourishing future over the next couple years of really connecting. Right. So in the limit, you could even say—I don’t know if this is accurate, but potentially—a lot of the biggest breakthroughs look like this at some level. With general relativity, you’re just connecting together Riemannian geometry and special relativity. So as AIs keep getting better and better at this connection thing, maybe a lot of big breakthroughs are not really of a different qualitative nature. I don’t know if you have a take on that.…

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