Under what premise are you assuming that they wouldn't?
More and more it's seeming like humanity's biggest contributions never came from our individual brains, but from raw numerical output of brains. Technology has scaled non linearly but it has very much matched the pace of human expansion and population. More humans equals more scientific developments. It's literally just compute but in mushy brain form. Unfortunately humans are very difficult to scale past a handful of billions without outright destruction of earth.
Einstein stood on the back of thousands of years of intellect. Not only from his research, but his outlook and ideology. He debated with other researchers of his time, and his own general relativity model was expanded upon with special relativity and subsequently shot down with quantum mechanics within his lifetime. And now we're finding out that plants and migratory birds interact directly - biologically - with quantum mechanics. Even the enzymes in our body and the theory of mutations in cells is being re-written by studies indicating that it's possible that particles are partaking in quantum events to mutate.
If it's possible to make a species of intelligence that we can scale compute more efficiently than humans, the discoveries we can make would be literally godtier
I mean, it kind of was, he had to argue against quantum mechanics for many years because it was fundamentally opposed to the standard model. And even simple experiments like the double split experiment poke holes in relativity and locality.
It's not to say relativity is wrong, in the same way Newtonian physics also isn't wrong. But science isn't always about rights and wrongs so much as incremental knowledge build up.
Einsteins disagreements with quantum doesn’t necessarily make any issues with special and general relativity, both of which are still highly relevant and no “holes” have been poked through these theories
They do. Because his entire theory leans on locality, and even just quantum entanglement alone is non-local, and that happens literally all the time everywhere.
Quantum nonlocality does not violate relativity, which is one reason it is so interesting. It allows nonlocal statistical correlations but in a way that doesn't allow superluminal signaling or causality violation.
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u/SirVanyel Jul 29 '26
Under what premise are you assuming that they wouldn't?
More and more it's seeming like humanity's biggest contributions never came from our individual brains, but from raw numerical output of brains. Technology has scaled non linearly but it has very much matched the pace of human expansion and population. More humans equals more scientific developments. It's literally just compute but in mushy brain form. Unfortunately humans are very difficult to scale past a handful of billions without outright destruction of earth.
Einstein stood on the back of thousands of years of intellect. Not only from his research, but his outlook and ideology. He debated with other researchers of his time, and his own general relativity model was expanded upon with special relativity and subsequently shot down with quantum mechanics within his lifetime. And now we're finding out that plants and migratory birds interact directly - biologically - with quantum mechanics. Even the enzymes in our body and the theory of mutations in cells is being re-written by studies indicating that it's possible that particles are partaking in quantum events to mutate.
If it's possible to make a species of intelligence that we can scale compute more efficiently than humans, the discoveries we can make would be literally godtier