this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
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Why not? The search space is massive, and it's not the first time humanity stumbled upon some simple revolutionary discovery.
Just because we failed to figure out the conceptually simple thing until now, doesn't mean it can't be the case. Anything else is just some form of human exceptionalism.