Comment by arethuza
3 hours ago
I think if an LLM had read any discussions on how best to remove burrs from pet coats then it might eventually get to Velcro - I believe the inventor of Velcro got the idea from burrs?
3 hours ago
I think if an LLM had read any discussions on how best to remove burrs from pet coats then it might eventually get to Velcro - I believe the inventor of Velcro got the idea from burrs?
> "I believe the inventor of Velcro got the idea from burrs?"
I think there's a provocative human-intelligence analog to be found there: "humans will never discover anything that doesn't already exist somewhere in nature. We can only recombine concepts we've seen—never invent truly new ones".
It's said that mathematics is "unreasonably effective" at describing the natural world. But what about the other way around? What if mathematics is unreasonably ineffective at escaping the convex-hull of concepts and patterns found in nature?