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esafak • yesterday at 9:34 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

It is not at all obvious that merely because we have words for concepts, that a model should be able to do all these miraculous mathematical and scientific things.


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nico • yesterday at 9:40 PM

You are correct. My comment is not so much about that this is something elementary. But rather an observation that, given the current state of technology, it seems like we are being able to model increasingly more things, in increasingly more efficient and automated ways, to the point that there seems to be a pattern to it

jeremyjh • yesterday at 9:36 PM

Right, it also has to model a substantial fraction of reality (or at least a true simulation of it) to accomplish these things.

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