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People are misunderstanding. I mean how would you determine that an artifact was engineered rather than natural? Like an alien object? What specific heuristics would you apply? It feels obvious with human ones but making the principles explicit is not easy.
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- are more successful the fewer optimistic assumptions they make about their operating environment - are often a reflection of the core personalities involved in their creation
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Their topology is fundamentally 2D, because we can’t design or build things inside other things Engineered design is a 2D manifold filling 3D space
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