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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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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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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The right angle stuff is mostly us designing for legibility right? Aren’t there photos of machines designing trusses that look super alien?
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Yeah machine learning produces weird designs. Autodesk has a museum of that stuff.
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So would those laws include this machine designed stuff too?
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