@VraserX: One of the weirdest possible futures is AI making scientific discoveries so far beyond human understanding that nobody …
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A speculative post about a future where AI makes scientific discoveries so far beyond human comprehension that their underlying mechanisms take decades to explain, even as their effects can be rigorously tested.
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One of the weirdest possible futures is AI making scientific discoveries so far beyond human understanding that nobody can actually explain why they work.
Imagine curing a disease using a treatment we can rigorously test but whose underlying theory takes us another 50 years to understand.
Science is going to get very strange.
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