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by Terr_ 62 days ago
I think some of it has to do with incentives. Nobody wants to invest in a team to adapt and test other-field lessons that may come out as "there's no free lunch" or "this is equivalent to a hard problem they didn't solve there yet either."

So instead we're more likely to see navel-gazing "singularity" stories that fit with telling your investors they will become fantastically rich.