dmitriy(@DmitriyLeybel):While this is pretty funny and poignant, I contend that humans need time to hallucinate in order for some breakthroughs to occur. I bet Einstein spent a lot of time hallucinating before the Theory of Relativity materialized in his head.

2026.10.14 18:43

While this is pretty funny and poignant, I contend that humans need time to hallucinate in order for some breakthroughs to occur. I bet Einstein spent a lot of time hallucinating before the Theory of Relativity materialized in his head.

François Chollet@fchollet

2026.10.14 14:28

String theory is what happens when an intelligent system is starved of sensory input and starts hallucinating. Intelligence needs grounding. For this reason, intelligence is practically never the bottleneck to solving impactful problems. The bottleneck is iterated contact with reality.