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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

But by the mid-1600s the idea was emerging that there could be more explicit and mechanical explanations for phenomena in the natural world. So, for example, in the late 1700s the French balloonist Jacques Charles (1746–1823) noted the linear increase of volume of a gas with temperature.

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

So now it’s natural to wonder: How far will this go? My goal here is to explore some of the science, technology—and philosophy—of what we can expect from AIs. And in the phenomenon of computational irreducibility science is in effect “deriving its own limitedness”. What will AIs be able to do? And how will we humans fit in?

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