Nah, the main lesson is that fundamentally new ways of doing things are only accepted once the old guard are all dead [1].
reply[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Re...
> If there is anything to learn from the history of science, it is that breakthroughs happen via better or new theory and not by brute-force compute
replythat might just be an illusion. humanity as a whole applies brute force by just trying all the reasonable new theories until one of us discovers something that works and declares it a breakthrough
This isn't 'brute-force'. It's just time-compressed. You could imagine a human(s) getting this result similarly, but it would take months/years.
replyBrute-force compute hasn't been an option for most of the history of science.
replyVery true. Humans have historically tried to systematically reduce the search space and only dedicate their "compute" to things that seem highly likely to yield results.
replySometimes you just need to put in some effort to looking through the search space, not even exhaustively. This seems to be able to do automate doing that work.
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