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Re:Is the emergence of life an expected phase transition in ... by basil-rash on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @10:04AM (#39104230)
What makes you confident our evolution didn’t occur the same way? The “fossil records” of the two are similar in many ways: lots of baby steps, giant leap with no known intermediary states, lots of baby steps, …
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Re:Is the emergence of life an expected phase transition in ... by SketchySeaBeast on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @10:13AM (#39104390)
> giant leap with no known intermediary states

That's just evidence of absent records, not that there are no records.

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Re:Is the emergence of life an expected phase transition in ... by basil-rash on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @10:13AM (#39104394)
Yes and?
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Re:Is the emergence of life an expected phase transition in ... by SketchySeaBeast on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @10:15AM (#39104441)
And if we're building off a bad initial premise it weakens the whole argument. "AI could be evolving just like us!" doesn't make sense when we don't know how we evolved.
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Re:Is the emergence of life an expected phase transition in ... by basil-rash on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @10:20AM (#39104520)
The initial argument was just as bad: “AI can’t be evolving like us”, when we have no clue how we evolved.

All I’m doing is calling out the intellectual dishonesty is making any claims about something we know nothing of.

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