[colinplamondon]

Honest question - how is that not true of those past researchers?

IE, they...

- Start with the context window of prior researchers.

- Set a goal or research direction.

- Engage in chain of thought with occasional reality-testing.

- Generate an output artifact, reviewable by those with appropriate expertise, to allow consensus reality to accept or reject their work.

[gitfan86]

AI sceptics are on a trajectory towards philosophy.

[ysavir]

The difference is that human researchers have agency--for better or for worse.