Catching Crumbs from the Table (2000)

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12 points by stefanpie 2 days ago


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chr15m - an hour ago

> Hermeneutics is a legitimate method of scientific inquiry.

Whatever the non-fiction equivalent of this is, maybe that's what smart, curious humans will do in the future.

Human mathematicians will explore the findings of AI research to try to understand and explain it to other human mathematicians, in the same way biologists today try to explore and understand living organisms to explain them to other human biologists.

dang - 5 hours ago

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chrisjj - 2 days ago

Free of charge here https://www.scribd.com/document/893921964/CHIANG-Catching-Cr...