alt Hacker News> It's not just that the world is built around human-shape, but it's also that humans are very, very adaptable. Our hands are a marvel of evolution allowing us to do extremely precise tasks while still being adaptable to all kind of movement
Not just our hands but really our whole bodies.
I recently taught one of my kids to ride a bike and once they got it I thought to myself:
"Somehow millions of years of evolution have somehow allowed us to ride a machine that was invented <200 years ago"
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tomaskafka • today at 4:22 PM
“Somehow millions of iterations of training has allowed us to one shot a task that was made up 0.1 s ago”, the agent quipped in CoT
willhslade • today at 3:12 PM
Well, it was invented by and for us, but your point still stands.
“When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.” — Elizabeth Howard West