Michael Nielsen: belief

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…But that seems more of a brute-force thing than what say OpenAI has done. Sure. I’m just saying that’s a potential outcome — I think quite a plausible potential outcome. I don’t think it’s likely, but it’s not 99 percent unlikely either. Yes, certainly, it’s a very Neil Postman point of view. You have this, basically, almost Larry Lessig “Code is Law.” You just keep building more and more governance infrastructure into the technology, and you’re moving it out of the hands of the population and into the technology. That seems to be, certainly, the story of the last 100 years, and very likely the story of the next 100 years. Is the status of linear algebra rising?…

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