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voidfunc • today at 12:03 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

The beginning of the end of human thinking being valuable enough to justify university's existences among many others.

Were in an unprecedented time where the value of knowledge is about to be crushed.


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voidhorse • today at 3:16 AM

Maybe for STEM. The humanities seems kind of safe to me since there's an element of it which cannot be divorced from human opinion and interpretation. It's not like STEM where the people pursuing the ends are largely fungible and the ends are objective (Heisenberg already believed scientific discoveries were inevitable and it didn't really matter who pursued them, someone would eventually find them)

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bamboozled • today at 12:21 AM

Not sure I agree with this take, but we're going to find out either way.

Have you ever heard of an S curve? Things will develop rapidly, then equalize. If they don't, we're at the singularity and I guess the end of time as we know it.

But I guess really bad things happen, cancer, radiation poisoning, torture, people have died in really horrendous ways, and I guess dying from some horrendous AI side effects is possible too. Yay.