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▲ jansport123 5 hours ago

They aren't just ideas, i read that in semiconductor manufacturing these old heads have a tremendous amount of process knowledge that's never been written down.

▲nilkn 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I'd need to see specific examples. It's not clear to me that I'd consider this knowledge about the world but rather agreed upon conventions for how humans work together.

▲tylerhou 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I do research on programming languages. There are many facts about programming languages that (1) nobody else knows and (2) I have not written down because I just haven’t had the time / opportunity.

The same happens all the time in mathematics.

▲calf 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I think his grain of truth is that human private knowledge is a) not special and AIs can/will do it too, and b) AIs will vastly outstrip human capacity for this type of knowledge.

▲tylerhou an hour ago | parent [-]

lol no