Recently, a team of researchers mapped the neural wiring of a fruit fly. They didn’t “program” the fly to walk or react to light; they simply recreated the architecture of its brain inside a simulation. The result? The simulated fly started behaving like a fly. It turns out that in complex systems, structure produces behavior . You don’t need to teach a piano how to sound like a piano; you just need to build it with the right tension and layout. When you strike the key, the s

There was a lot of noise coming out of Davos this year.Big ideas. Big timelines. Big futures. But one comment stuck with me in a very different way. When Dario Amodei talked about being six to twelve months away from recursive self-improvement, it wasn’t the sci-fi implication that grabbed me. It was the mundanity of it. Because if he’s right — and I think he probably is — this won’t feel dramatic at all to most people. It’ll feel… normal. You Won’t Know It’s Happening (An

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