Changed a car headlight bulb. 5 minute annoying task I’ve done twice before in my life. This time doing it at the peak of a bad cold made it torture. Amazing how much stupider and physically weaker (finger muscle strength, eye fatigue, holding a small weight) a cold makes you.
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And I’ve never managed to follow instructions precisely. This time a connector was too stiff so I had to work awkwardly around a connected assembly that should have been disconnected fully and set down on a surface. Instead wife held it in hover mode while I replaced.
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I may have been pushing wrong on connector. Diagram/YouTube were unclear and the thing didn’t look like a familiar snap connector. We rely more on pattern recognition than we realize to guess how things are supposed to work. Explicit instructions 10%. Tacit assumed knowledge: 90%
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Moravec’s paradox is recursive. We’re always picking off the easiest subset of problems to automate. Boston robotics robots are better than chess orvtheorem proving AIs, but we’re still using them for closed-world stunts rather than open-world task like replacing a lightbulb.
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