Mechanisms too simple for humans to design

by aghilmorton 3/12/25, 2:06 AMwith 2 comments
by aghilmorton 3/12/25, 2:08 AM

"humans are terrible at building butterflies"

also, the Microsoft Word vs. genome size chart, <https://res.cloudinary.com/lesswrong-2-0/image/upload/f_auto...>

by tocs3on 3/12/25, 3:57 AM

This make me think of the essay "I,Pencil" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Pencil