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A comment on Interview with Stephen Wolfram on AI and the Future. Parent comment
There's an epistemological tendency to assume the universe is isomorphic to the most complex mechanical model available at the time.
Historically, those models seem to be reliably wrong; the universe always turns out to be more complicated and subtle than we imagine it is.
There's an epistemological tendency to assume the universe is isomorphic to the most complex mechanical model available at the time.
Historically, those models seem to be reliably wrong; the universe always turns out to be more complicated and subtle than we imagine it is.