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Comment by legulere

2 days ago

That’s just hindsight. People work on a lot of different things. Breakthoughs and cumulative improvements reaching a tipping point might happen or not.

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OrangeDelonge  2 days ago

Agreed, Quantum Computing is a nice example of this.

  • yunwal  2 days ago

    LLMs were also a nice example of this before 2018 or so, so I wouldn't necessarily count on quantum computing being a disappointment forever.

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