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> Does this decouple progress from our current understanding of the scientific process?

Thank God! As a person who uses my brain, I think I can say, pretty definitively, that people are bad at understanding things.

If this actually pans out, it means we will have harnessed knowledge/truth as a fundamental force, like fire or electricity. The "black box" as a building block.



This type of thing is called an "oracle".

We've had stuff like this for a long time.

Notable examples:

- Temple priestesses

- Tea-leaf reading

- Water scrying

- Palmistry

- Clairvoyance

- Feng shui

- Astrology

The only difference is, the ML model is really quite good at it.


> The only difference is, the ML model is really quite good at it.

That's the crux of it: we've had theories of physics and chemistry since before writing was invented.

None of that mattered until we came upon the ones that actually work.




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