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jazzprogramming • today at 8:14 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

> If AI designs a terawatt fusion plant, then of course we're going to meticulously pore over every detail

But suppose some future holy grail AI can do much more than that.

Suppose it could find a cure for cancer, fix the climate, build fusion plants, Dyson spheres and so on.

But nobody can understand anymore how any of it works. We just ask and then trust the AI to deliver (as it always has).

Isn't it fun to imagine how life would look like in that scenario?

We would probably no longer care about code, engineering or even physics and mathematics among other things. We would probably mainly care about


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KurSix • today at 8:55 AM

I think the weirdest part of that scenario is that science might become something closer to archaeology

arcanemachiner • today at 8:35 AM

You can't just leave us hanging like that!

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fodkodrasz • today at 8:41 AM

no