Nikolay Kukus... (@niko_kukus...), quoting Darwin to Jes... (@darwintojes...)
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Nikolay Kukus... ✓ @niko_kukus... · Dec 5
The intuition here is that anything sufficiently complex can only be designed; actually, anything sufficiently complex can only be grown. LLMs, human intelligence, multicellular organisms, life on Earth. You can't assemble an equilibrium — it has to equilibrate on its own.
> QUOTED: Darwin to Jes... ✓ @darwintojes... · Nov 26
> Imagine thinking this isn't designed
> [Two black-and-white images: top is a bare winter tree with sprawling branching structure; bottom is an anatomical image of branching blood vessels/vasculature (looks like an injected/cast specimen of vascular or bronchial tree), both showing similar fractal branching patterns.]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A tweet arguing that LLMs, human intelligence, and biological structures share a common property — they can only be "grown," not designed, because equilibria can't be assembled from outside. Directly resonant with Nathan's own "missile-mind vs grown thing" framework (80/20 split on capabilities producing personhood inextricably vs. optimization producing hollow missiles) — this is an independent articulation of the same growth-vs-design intuition, applied explicitly to LLMs.
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