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>If I freeze 40 yo Einstein and make it so he can't form new memories beyond 5 minutes, that's still an incredibly useful, generally intelligent thing.

But every time you tried to get him to do something you'd have to teach him from first principles. Good luck getting ChatStein to interact with the internet, to write code or design a modern airplane. Even in physics, he'd be using antiquated methods and assumptions, this getting worse as time progresses(like sib comment I believe was alluding to).

And don't even get me started on the language barrier.

I recently read this short story[1] on the topic so it's fresh on my mind.

[1]https://qntm.org/mmacevedo



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