[submeta]

More and more, I'm starting to believe that we are witnessing one of two phenomena. Either we're observing an emergence, in which humanity is making quantum leaps in scientific advancement, or indeed, some form of intelligence is subtly guiding us toward solutions for humanity's most pressing problems.

[gochi]

Or the alternative: after several years of media coverage almost exclusively being about either the pandemic effects, covid, layoffs, or wars; we've gone "back to normal" by relying on these revolutionary studies/concepts that struggle to ever make it to full availability for clickbait.

[SubiculumCode]

Used to be a brilliant mind could learn all there was known about science. Now its too much, and our minds have a hard time grasping what millions of minds working on a million problems for untold hours can accomplish.

[gremlinsinc]

imagine if ai basically ended human labor we all had universal basic income and everyone was essentially advised to become an artist or scientist to essentially work on elevating our knowledge. imagine if every starving kid or adult in 3rd world countries were scientists.

I mean with AI we might not need all those brains on problems but it couldn't hurt to have that large of a scientifically educated body .

[dotnet00]

I don't think those are your only two possibilities. The much more mundane answer is just that this isn't really that different from most years. There's usually a couple of seemingly "big" breakthroughs every year. It's just that the past few years have had most of them overshadowed by negative clickbait news even moreso than normal.

[bobmaxup]

Why would you believe that an intelligence is pushing humanity that way?

For instance, LK-99 was discovered in 1999. Why would an intelligence who pushed someone to make this tell them to study it for decades and to patent it before they made a publication?

[gremlinsinc]

yes, some form of intelligence is leading this. it's not aliens or God though, just artificial intelligence grown in a lab.