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Re:The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding ... by SoftTalker on Sunday April 05, 2026 @12:15PM (#47650893)
And then you realize that most of science is unnecessary. As TFA points out, it doesn't matter if the age of the universe is 13.77 or 13.79 billion years. So you ban AI in science, you produce more scientists who can solve problems that don't matter. So what?
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Re:The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding ... by greedo on Sunday April 05, 2026 @06:39PM (#47654681)
Funny thing about that. Knowing what science is important is the hard part, and you often don't know for years or even decades.
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