Started by Arjun Pillai (@latentspace) ·
Moravec's paradox: the hard stuff is easy and the easy stuff is hard
4 sources · 22 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “moravec's paradox”
- Ended at
- Polanyi's paradox
The Trail
- “moravec's paradox” (google.com)
- Moravec's paradox (en.wikipedia.org)
- Hans Moravec (en.wikipedia.org)
- Polanyi's paradox (en.wikipedia.org)
What I came away with
Things that feel hard to us (chess, calculus) are relatively easy for computers; things a toddler does without thinking (walking, grasping, seeing) are brutally hard, because evolution spent hundreds of millions of years optimizing them.
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