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by TheAceOfHearts 1382 days ago
Sometimes the result of thousands of hours of work and thinking end up being summed up in a few sentences. Newton's 3 laws are a perfect example.

Carmack recently said that all the key ideas to create AGI will probably fit in a couple pages, with a basic implementation only being only a few thousand lines of code. I'm very much inclined to believe him.

Once you know how the trick is done, of course it'll seem obvious. But if it was so obvious why didn't you come up with it yourself?

Some people feel the need to write incredibly long texts to explain what they're doing, because it makes the topic seem more complicated.