Eric Schmidt: some in San Francisco believe learning will explode past human understanding
haider1 · x · 2026-10-11
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says some in San Francisco believe there will be an explosion in learning that accelerates past what humans can understand. He points to mathematical proofs too complex for any human to grasp yet still verifiable, asking what it means if humans can never understand them.
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