Copernicus to AI: 'Our intelligence is not special' joins science's great decenterings
CatAstro_Piyush · x · 2026-10-10
A widely shared thread framing AI as the latest step in science's decentering narrative: Copernicus (planet), Darwin (biology), Shapley (star), Hubble (galaxy), multiverse (universe) — and now AI: our intelligence is not special.
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