{"id":672,"date":"2026-03-10T07:40:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T07:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/the-trajectories-of-science-and-ai-marginal-revolution\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T07:40:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T07:40:45","slug":"the-trajectories-of-science-and-ai-marginal-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/the-trajectories-of-science-and-ai-marginal-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"The trajectories of science and AI – Marginal REVOLUTION"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know, I\u2019ve read a lot of texts from the early days of the Industrial Revolution. Adam Smith is one of them, but there\u2019s many others, and a lot of people are for what\u2019s going on, they understand they will be richer, maybe healthier.<\/p>\n

They do see the downsides, but they have a pretty decent perspective. But no one from then understood. You\u2019d have this second order fossil fuel revolution, say the 1880s where just things explode and the world is very much different. And whether they would have liked that, you can debate, but they just didn\u2019t see it at all.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re probably in a somewhat analogous position. I would say that the Second Industrial Revolution was the more important one. It was a very good thing, even though climate change is a big problem, but it really built the modern world. And with something like AI or any advance, there\u2019s probably some second order version of it that\u2019s coming in our equivalent of 1880 that we just don\u2019t see, and it will be wonderful for us.<\/p>\n

But if you told us, we\u2019d be terrified. So how should you feel about myopia? I think as an intellectual, you should be willing to talk about it openly and honestly. But at the end of the day, I think myopia still will rule. And I\u2019m not in a big panic about that.
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You know, I\u2019ve read a lot of texts from the early days of the Industrial Revolution. Adam Smith is one of them, but there\u2019s many others, and a lot of people are for what\u2019s going on, they understand they will be richer, maybe healthier. They do see the downsides, but they have a pretty decent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,44,40],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-ai","tag-science","tag-the-industrial-revolution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}