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>>ChrisA+(OP)
AlphaFold is optimization, not thinking. Propaganda 'r us.

>>DrierC+R1
Did you watch the documentary? Would probably fare better if you did, because it'd give you the context for the film title.

>>fredol+h3
I'm an hour into it, unconvinced.

The illusion that agency 'emerges' from rules like games, is fundamentally absurd.

This is the foundational illusion of mechanics. It's UFOlogy not science.

>>DrierC+c4
Why is it absurd? Because believing that would break some deep delusion humans have about themselves?

>>dboreh+mj
Quite honestly, it's about time the penny dropped.

Look around you, look at the absolute shit people are believing, the hope that we have any more agency than machines... to use the language of the kids, is cope.

I have never considered myself particularly intelligent, which, I feel puts me at odds with many of HN readership, but I do always try to surround myself with myself with the smartest people I can.

The amount of them that have fallen down the stupidest rabbit holes i have ever seen really makes me think: as a species, we have no agency