You keep mentioning examples people are fully familiar with and comparing it to something nobody is familiar with.
Re:NSA UFO Documents Index
by at_a_remove on Thursday January 14, 2021 @04:03PM
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I do not know what you mean. I don't know what to tell you other than the following: Nearly every "Can't We Just ...?" is old. It's kind of irritating in a way, because people behave as if their thoughts on FTL (or overunity motors to break conservation of energy, or whatever) are new and unconsidered, but they end up being just about ancient and well-worn, and it's the equivalent of some bright spark saying, "Hey, why don't we just merge the Windows and Linux kernels? Should be easy!" or "Can't you just make it know what I want?" with reference to some program.
To be sure there are nuts working in their garages on various projects, but in the scientific community, nobody is holding their breath on these fantastic breakthroughs.
Who is to say that I cannot write an AI in under 1,000 lines of C? We don't know what we don't know. By all means, pursue that line of inquiry if you feel that the odds are with you.
It's just not a useful heuristic for deciding what to spend your resources (time, money, effort, energy, etc.) on.