🧩 Philosophy 2d ago · Ruby

Cheaper/faster/easier makes for step changes (and that's why even current-level LLMs are transformative)

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We already knew there's nothing new under the sun. Thanks to advances in telescopes, orbital launch, satellites, and space vehicles we now know there's nothing new above the sun either, but there is rather a lot of energy!For many phenomena, I think it's a matter of convenience and utility where you model them as discrete or continuous, aka, qualitative vs quantitative. On one level, nukes are simply a bigger explosion, and we already had explosions. On another level, they're sufficiently bigger

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