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    1. Alexandros Marinos‏ @alexandrosM 8 Oct 2020

      On a somewhat higher level, smart intersections look uncomfortably smooth, but can handle twice as many cars per unit of time, without traffic lights.https://www.dezeen.com/2016/03/21/light-traffic-junctions-mit-research-smart-intersections-design-driverless-vehicles/ …

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    2. Alexandros Marinos‏ @alexandrosM 8 Oct 2020

      When AlphaGo beat the human champion, it made a move that was completely unexpected, one that human teachers would have trained out of their students: https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/9/11185030/google-deepmind-alphago-go-artificial-intelligence-impact …pic.twitter.com/zhw8OrLubq

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    3. Alexandros Marinos‏ @alexandrosM 8 Oct 2020

      What's the common thread? Machines tend to depend on us to define the high-level objectives, but they can explore infinitely more of the solution space than we could hope to. Their results are often much much better than we could ever hope to produce.

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    4. Alexandros Marinos‏ @alexandrosM 8 Oct 2020

      At the same time, they come with an aesthetic strongly pointing to natural patterns. Their form and function merge in a way that feels unattainable, but strangely perfect. And yet, the designs are ephemeral. A single change in requirements produces a completely different result.

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    5. Alexandros Marinos‏ @alexandrosM 8 Oct 2020

      Algorithmic design automates first principles thinking. By being incredibly fast, they can start over every time, and starting from scratch every time, they can afford to search for global optima, away from legacy, tradition, path dependency.

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    6. Alexandros Marinos‏ @alexandrosM 8 Oct 2020

      I'm getting increasingly convinced that we should be creating algorithms instead of directly designing things as much as possible. If we're not able to design a chair, what tells us that we can design organizations, laws, educational curricula, health systems?

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    7. Alexandros Marinos‏ @alexandrosM 8 Oct 2020

      Humans are good at spotting errors but not great at being reliably great all the time. As the stakes rise, we can't afford to be carrying forward old designs just because we don't have time to redesign things. Codebases that are decades old are mostly waste and deadlock.

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    8. Alexandros Marinos‏ @alexandrosM 8 Oct 2020

      Our egos are telling us that we can do it better, but the reality is that we would be much better served focusing on simplifying our world before the complexity builds up to the point of collapse.

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    9. Alexandros Marinos‏ @alexandrosM 8 Oct 2020

      Here's the good news: There's a future where humans and machines can cooperate to be better than either on their own. Centaur chess (human+machine teams) produces beter games than the best chess engines alone.https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/11/what-are-humans-still-good-for-the-turning-point-in-freestyle-chess-may-be-approaching.html …

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    10.  🎀 sonya supposedly  🤖‏ @sonyasupposedly 15 Oct 2020
      Replying to @alexandrosM @0K_ultra

      per @gwern this is no longer true and machines school humans at chess

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 15 Oct 2020
      Replying to @sonyasupposedly @alexandrosM and

      > feel 🤔

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        1. Alexandros Marinos‏ @alexandrosM 15 Oct 2020
          Replying to @MorlockP @sonyasupposedly and

          Yeah, it does, to me, intuitively. I could do the work to bolster the case, but you know, Twitter.

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