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marcinzm
on Sept 9, 2022
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Some things I realized about AI while contemplatin...
There's been jokes about Spherical Cow (ie: bad assumptions leading to clearly impossible results) since probably before computers.
WalterBright
on Sept 9, 2022
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It definitely had nothing to do with computers. My physics class was full of jokes about frictionless brakes, massless points, and pointless masses.
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