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[-] Seraph@fedia.io 66 points 1 year ago

Science is indistinguishable from magic, if you don't care to learn how science works.

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 year ago
[-] Dicska@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

But... if there's a consistent system along which magic works which can be studied/researched/formulated, then isn't it just... science?

[-] djsoren19@yiffit.net 4 points 1 year ago

The keyword is consistent. Some settings have magic as inherently chaotic and difficult to control.

A good rule of thumb is that if a fantasy setting has a school for magic, it's probably a science. If it's knowledge passed from master to magically gifted student, it's probably not very consistent.

[-] kamenlady@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Watch "Agatha all Along" - the series is managing to answer exactly this question with a great script and cast.

/s

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago
[-] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

magic works

Humans have yet to prove it.

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Well, it sometimes does

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago

I absolutely feel like in a thousand years, we'll talk to a machine and not even know how it works.

Hell, I look at the computer in front of me and only feel like I know a fraction of what's going on.

[-] CheesyGordita@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Hail the Omnissiah!

[-] BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That's what neural networks are now. We do not know how it works under the hood. We just feed it training data.

[-] bus_factor@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

We know how it works, but we can't explain exactly how it got to the answers.

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

We do, though.

Just to make sure my understanding was accurate, I asked Gemini to critique my explanation:

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Unless it’s lying to me about itself, I was able to explain the basics of it in two relatively simple sentences. Of course that doesn’t cover everything, but Gemini thinks that’s a pretty good overview. After expanding on each point in its reply, it said this:

I think a lot of the confusion over these models stems from hype and marketing that makes them out to be more than what they are.

[-] Etienne_Dahu@jlai.lu 1 points 1 year ago

Magnets, how do they work?

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