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As we all know, humans are terrible at building butterflies. We can make a lot of objectively cool things like nuclear reactors and microchips, but w…
x Mechanisms too simple for humans to design — LessWrong Biology Evolution Progress Studies World Modeling Frontpage 2025 Top Fifty: 71 % 220 Mechanisms too simple for humans to design by Malmesbury 22nd Jan 2025 18 min read 47 220 Cross-posted from Telescopic Turnip Disclaimer: This article is about living organisms, and how they are sculpted by evolution. Any use of mathematics is metaphorical, not literal – it's only there to give a sense of scale . Apologies to all the people who got correctly offended by my shamelessly hand-wavy references to Kolmogorov complexity. As we all know, humans
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