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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 8
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      Has anyone ever done a systematic study of the laws of engineered systems? Like how we have laws of physics and principles of biology? Thinking stuff like: - they have lots of right angles - they have pure materials - weak fractal structure - symmetries etc

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 8
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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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        1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 8
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          Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Gregory Merchán

          Yep... Superman’s fortress of solitude looks like stalactites and stalagmiteshttps://twitter.com/quodvideo/status/1325673247044759553 …

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          "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rock."—me
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        2. Song Avram Boriskin O.‏ @butanmist Nov 8
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          "What is quality?"

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        3. Beau Butler‏ @oddynz Nov 8
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          "What is love?"

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        1. Toby‏ @tobyshorin Nov 8
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          Sarah’s Mess essay gets kind of close!

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        1. Evan Driscoll‏ @KeenDisregard Nov 8
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          establishing provenance of synthetic media is a challenge in part because the development of better detectors often lends itself to more clever ways to fool them

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        1. Jody Shenn still doesn’t trust 2020‏ @JodyShenn Nov 8
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          Have you seen what’s in the deep oceans?

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        2. Charlie Sanders‏ @CharlieSand3rs Nov 8
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          My first instinct is that there is no distinction. A forest is natural, but has been engineered by biological systems and is in fact a unique product of its environment, just like a skyscraper has been. All objects are where the are for some reason.

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          If you’re talking like, E.T. style alien, then it would probably be a materials science question, as the structural properties of a material beyond any known human capability would be both logical for an alien object to possess and immediately obvious.

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        2. Kia‏☆‏ @alt_kia Nov 8
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          making those kinds of heuristics explicit is in a sense, the goal of Design for Manufacturability practices; in that they tell you what sort of designs are easiest to make with extant manufacturing techniques

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        3. Kia‏☆‏ @alt_kia Nov 8
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          like in your OP, "lots of right angles, pure materials, weak fractal structure, symmetries" is pretty much a subset of "guidelines for getting a part CNC'd into existence as cheaply as possible [by reducing demands for fancier machines and machining/setup time]"

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