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		goatlover 15 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: François Chollet: The Arc Prize and How We Get to ... Wouldn't this unification need to be backed by empirical data? Let's say the AI discovers the two theories can be unified using let's say some configuration 8 spatial dimensions and 2 time dimensions. Neat trick, but how do we know the world actually has those dimensions?

gtech1 15 days ago [–]

Do we even have any other theory that does that already ? It seems that even finding one would be a great achievement

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