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Humans began to rapidly accumulate technological knowledge 600k years ago

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273 points geox | 4 comments | 17 Jun 24 21:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.234s | source
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johnnylambada ◴[18 Jun 24 02:27 UTC] No.40713507[source]▶
It’s fascinating to think about the number of PUs (procedural units) it takes to make a modern tool. Something as simple as a modern hammer must number in the thousands and a mobile phone in the millions or billions.
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levocardia ◴[18 Jun 24 04:01 UTC] No.40713950[source]▶
That idea is pretty similar to "assembly theory" no? In the sense of how much information or evolution was necessary to generate some artifact, be it a benzene molecule, a stone tool, or an iphone
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1. visarga ◴[18 Jun 24 05:33 UTC] No.40714354[source]▶
It took humans 300k years, all of us, our collective output to reach this point. Yet people insist on comparing a human who is part of society with a LLM alone, who doesn't even have search, and very limited contexts, just closed book mode remembering.
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2. lifeofguenter ◴[18 Jun 24 05:37 UTC] No.40714368[source]▶
Who is comparing LLM with Humans?

As far as I can tell nobody is.

LLM is a great tool that helps our brains same way a hammer helps our hands.

3. namaria ◴[18 Jun 24 07:47 UTC] No.40715133[source]▶
You seem to be hallucinating a strawman
4. jstanley ◴[18 Jun 24 08:41 UTC] No.40715409[source]▶
Wrong thread, perhaps?