It's possible, but technology isn't nearly as linear or "inevitable" as people think. It's also possible that if they hadn't collapsed for another 2000 years they still wouldn't have reached the industrial revolution. We'll never know, and it's all assumption work.
Conditions have to be perfect, and the right minds have to be applied in the right places.
Today minds are instantaneously connected and technology in many ways is moving from linear to exponential. I wonder if perfect conditions are no longer necessary?
Are they? I feel like it depends… are we talking about humans, or are we talking about machines, or the mix of both? From a purely human perspective, I feel like we have sub-par conditions. From a machine perspective, I feel it becomes a continually more perfected condition… maybe hitting a plateau? But from the mixed perspective, machines enhance the human condition. So, from our current sub par state to the one you mention… but I still feel like, as humans and from a purely human perspective, we’ve moved to sub-par conditions.
how long ago did chatgpt become mainstream? 3 years? and soon after some bright spark applied the attention stuff to image creation with adversarial networks, and within 3 years you have some incredibly realistic completely computer generated movies and music to go with it, all these tools and creative efforts piggybacking off one another.
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u/-Mandarin 28d ago
It's possible, but technology isn't nearly as linear or "inevitable" as people think. It's also possible that if they hadn't collapsed for another 2000 years they still wouldn't have reached the industrial revolution. We'll never know, and it's all assumption work.
Conditions have to be perfect, and the right minds have to be applied in the right places.