Robotenomics

I just tried and it immediately said, in red letters, “I’m unable to produce a response”

Wow - I had no idea there had been so many cycles in the rise, stagnation and decline of intelligence. I would agree we are at risk of another decline due to over reliance on large language models.

This is insane

I will look for more watchmaker examples. I read ?Boorsteins? Discoverers, it had a long chapter on the discovery of time as a human invention

I had absolutely no idea there were so many watchmakers that were great inventors. But there are many time pieces which are works of engineering marvel.

Fantastic study thank you and such evocative language “The fluttery flight of butterflies over a sunny meadow instils fascination, yet the flight of butterflies remains somewhat a mystery. The few flight mechanistic studies performed so far on butterflies have triggered suggestions that they use a variety of unsteady aerodynamic mechanisms for their force production. Among these mechanisms, the upstroke wing clap, first described by Weis-Fogh for insects already in the early 1970s, is one repeatedly reported as used by butterflies. Despite the importance of this mechanism, as far as we know, quantitative measurements of the aerodynamics of the wing clap in freely flying animals are still lacking.”

Brilliant - we think much less than we think we think.

Things have improved considerably over the last 3 months. Claude with cursor.ai is certainly over 50%

“Only 5/509 participants solved P6”

Good read. There was also a book about this. But I have not read it - maybe I will now!

Interesting post. Thank you. Agreed Wells should be read widely. Szilard actually became very concerned about world peace after new with Wells and tried to stop the non being dropped after learning Germany did not have it. This is a warning to what we build today.