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Will AI destroy civilization in the near future? (with Connor Leahy)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
The Importance of Intuition in Human Science
I suspect that in human science, there are these interesting intuitive leaps that scientists often take where they're using their intuition. But I don't think the process is always using the step-by-step system to logic. The algorithm that we use to coordinate around science involves subgraphs that involve passing around extremely high-dimensional tensors. So this puts a constraint on the type of meta-algorithm that science is. Humans can do this with, you know, maybe in some spots there are high-dimensional Tensors involved, but they don't need it for the whole system.
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