Catching Crumbs from the Table (2000)
Posted by stefanpie 2 days ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20150719010624/http://www.nature...
https://www.scribd.com/document/893921964/CHIANG-Catching-Cr...
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Comment by dang 1 day ago
Catching crumbs from the table by Ted Chiang (2000) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47559422 - March 2026 (1 comment)
Catching crumbs from the table (2000) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13257199 - Dec 2016 (5 comments)
Comment by chr15m 1 day ago
Whatever the non-fiction equivalent of this is, maybe that's what smart, curious humans will do in the future.
Human mathematicians will explore the findings of AI research to try to understand and explain it to other human mathematicians, in the same way biologists today try to explore and understand living organisms to explain them to other human biologists.
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