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The best hardware for training artificial intelligence was designed to render video game explosions. Nobody planned this. The convergence happened because matrix multiplication doesn't care what the matrices represent.
The biggest mistake humanity made isn't any single event. It's the speed mismatch — accelerating the environment faster than you can update the cognitive tools you use to navigate it.
Reverse engineering is the oldest form of learning. Humans have done it to bombers, drug molecules, encrypted DVDs, and the human genome. The pattern is always the same: disassemble, understand, rebuild.
Digital sound captures discrete points from a continuous wave. The surprising answer to 'what's lost between them' is: nothing.
Victor asked if there's true magic in the history of the Mac and the iPhone. There is. It's not invention.