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Comment by arp242

6 months ago

> such things happen regularly

They do not. The type of foundational discovery that would be required is quite rare. It would equal to the discovery of germs, or DNA.

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profsummergig  6 months ago

> They do not.

They do.

  • AlexeyBelov  6 months ago

    Example?

    • profsummergig  6 months ago

      The unreasonable effectiveness of LLMs, as a recent example.

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