Discovery Loop

Post by DaiPlusPlus » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 6:38 PM UTC

mbonnet wrote: post #105

drivebyhooting wrote: post #87

How do you automate experimentation? Doubtlessly, AI can iterate at superhuman speeds in the domains of thought and design: Software, mathematical proofs, literature search. But in the realm of experiment? Alas it is the lack of a body that constrains it. Rather than transcendence what AI requires is immanence. In the human flesh may we find the godhead living among men. Let the laboratories, warehouses, and factorie…

> transcendence > immanence somebody has been studying Christian theology!

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 6:40 PM UTC

canes123456 wrote: post #34

flakiness wrote: post #7

To be honest, this feels more like a lifestyle business (aka hobby) than a startup. They truly deserve it, but I don't expect a huge success as a business. That said, I hope they write cool papers with various peers across the industry without worrying too much about the competing dynamics. That'd be a blessing for humanity, and good for their spirit.

A public benefit corp shouldn’t be a start up. The primary goal of a start up is to grow as quickly as possible which is rarely benefits the public. Very silly to call every non start up a lifestyle business. It’s just a business. Start up are the weird thing that almost always an obscene waste of time and money, but sometime creates google.

Post by EstanislaoStan » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 6:44 PM UTC

scrlk wrote: post #106

moelf wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

would love to see how AI can automate the construction of the next high energy particle collider

"You're absolutely right! I shouldn't have pushed the anti-mass spectrometer to 105% power, causing a resonance cascade. This was a major oversight on my part."

Post by minittsnet » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 6:46 PM UTC

dude250711 wrote: post #68

swalsh wrote: post #51

By the middle of the 2030's the world we live in will be unrecognizable.

It will not be owned by top 1%?

Post by holmesworcester » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 6:49 PM UTC

DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #170

tbrownaw wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do not see how the second sentence follows from the first. I would think the claim in the second sentence would only be relevant in case of the inverse of the claim in the first sentence.

> I do not see how the second sentence follows from the first. Point 1 on the list is "Make Solar Energy Economical". Solar is economical today - mostly due to China investing (and heavily subsidising) in solar for the past couple of decades; but compare to the US where certain particular big-businesses (oil companies, mostly) were instead cynically funding disinformation efforts and getting into bed with the Republi…