There is a striking pattern of humans trying to build simulations of this world. Whether it's an artist painting a mountain replicating it's beauty, or an engineer in front of the whiteboard figuring out how to build an artificial neuron. Both take nature as ground truth for whatever they try to build.
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Intelligence is not separate from it's environment -
the same way the chess piece is not separate from the board.
Time to build.
What if Antoni Gaudí had 10,000 humanoids?
Let's be honest, our cities look and function like shit. After visiting Stanford, I get reminded that cities can actually be good—large walking spaces, biking infrastructure, lots of public spaces. It's just a pleasure to work, study and relax here. There is a small catch. Stanford was built from ground up with some idea in mind. It was an isolated space, with one vision for the university and optimized only for its purpose. It's like an oasis in the desert of space that looks like a Minecraft anarchy server.
How do we make our entire planet look like Stanford, Europe, and cities made for humans? Antoni Gaudí, the Picasso of architecture, had a vision for a large cathedral named Sagrada Família in Barcelona. It was a transformative piece of architecture, which took him only a few years to plan out on paper. His ideas were fast, but to get it to implementation took almost 125 years, with construction finishing only in 2026! For designing 0.001% of all human land!
Leighbor.
If we have humanoids making humanoids, finally we can ship physical things at the speed of software. If we want to make San Francisco look like Paris a little bit, if we have a million humanoids, we can manipulate physical matter so much faster now. All of the process from demolishing the old, building temporary housing for the residents (or like in sci-fi movies sending them on vacation lol), building and coordinating the construction, rebuilding an entire city doesn't look impossible if you have abundance of labor. The interesting part is that humans will serve as ground truth for these machines.
As an artist myself, I'm hopeful that in the not-so-distant future, the bottleneck won't be figuring out how to do something, but just sitting down and working on what. Entire city plans, sketches and creative ideas then are the only bottleneck.
Power to the artists.