@SamanthaJaneSmith @coreyspowell as for the string theory... I really understand just the very basic idea (and maybe not even enough) but it somehow reminds me of the original idea of "asking AI about how the world works and not really needing empirical data".

But of course... eg. atomic bomb was basically pure theory, gone "boom" when implemented. This was also the moment, when science started to be somewhat suspicious activity...

There were many attempts on trying to fugure out "how the things must work". Theory of knots in the 19th century turned out to be dead end... and yet they were quite sure, that they will predict properties of atoms! (The knots theory and string theories seem to be distant cousins).

You know, I am maybe more informed about the history of science ("wikipedia syndrome"), than recent developments :masto_wink:

I am basically very anti-LLM, because we can expect lot of people "educated" by talking with chatbots... and they would believe crazy things. But sometimes, there really may be occasional "nobody told them, that it can't work" effect.

Sometimes, you really need certain (but not too high) level of ignorance, that something is generally considered impossible (but not too much and not as repeated attempts and not when people's life are in danger...).

But also, scientific discoveries and technological inventions are not the same thing... but public likes to confuse them and it is also often misused as reason for funding... which is really oversimplification... like, lack if understanding, how society works...