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Same subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subject Read this korrent: Nature gave eyes to animals and not to trees because eyes are only worth having if you move, and moving is what produces a new viewpoint. Nature gave eyes to animals and notto trees because eyes are only worthhaving if you move, and moving iswhat produces a new viewpoint. FL Fei-Fei Li — holds since 2026-09-04 — tap for who they are Same subject: Evolution does not perfect anything; organisms are bodge jobs, which is why the human eye has a blind spot and a squid's does not. — tap to centre the map on it Evolution does not perfectanything; organisms are bodgejobs, which is why the humaneye has a blind spot and a… DH Dave Hone — holds since 2025-09-04 — tap for who they are Same subject: Sensing the world is what set evolution racing: the first photoreceptive cells created the force that drove animal life to diversify. — tap to centre the map on it Sensing the world is what setevolution racing: the firstphotoreceptive cells createdthe force that drove animal… FL Fei-Fei Li — holds since 2026-08-10 — tap for who they are Same subject: Predation is what makes evolution creative: without it there would be no arms races, no great feats of evolution, and a far less beautiful world. — tap to centre the map on it Predation is what makesevolution creative: without itthere would be no arms races,no great feats of evolution… NL Nick Lane — holds since 2022-09-07 — tap for who they are Same subject: Opinions move by touching things, not by reading about them: nobody learns to drive a race car from a book. — tap to centre the map on it Opinions move by touchingthings, not by reading aboutthem: nobody learns to drive arace car from a book. DH David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2026-07-26 — tap for who they are AM Adam Mastroianni — holds since 2023-03-14 — tap for who they are Same subject: Model intelligence should speciate like the animal kingdom rather than converge on one oracle that knows everything. — tap to centre the map on it Model intelligence shouldspeciate like the animalkingdom rather than convergeon one oracle that knows… AK Andrej Karpathy — holds since 2026-03-20 — tap for who they are Same subject: Anything nature shaped can be learned efficiently by a classical neural network, because evolutionary processes leave structure behind. — tap to centre the map on it Anything nature shaped can belearned efficiently by aclassical neural network,because evolutionary processes… DH Demis Hassabis — holds since 2025-07-23 — tap for who they are Same subject: Darwin's genius was not having the idea of selection, which animal breeders already had, but seeing how central it was to the whole of biology. — tap to centre the map on it Darwin's genius was not havingthe idea of selection, whichanimal breeders already had,but seeing how central it was… MN Michael Nielsen — holds since 2026-04-07 — tap for who they are Same subject: Evolution was not a thinkable theory before deep time: without hundreds of millions of years it simply looks like a nonstarter. — tap to centre the map on it Evolution was not a thinkabletheory before deep time:without hundreds of millionsof years it simply looks like… MN Michael Nielsen — holds since 2026-04-07 — tap for who they are
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At the centre Nature gave eyes to animals and not to trees because eyes are only worth having if you move, and moving is what produces a new viewpoint. Holds Fei-Fei Li Read this korrent →