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Daniel Nest's avatar

"Or, even better, imagine your room suddenly cleaning itself." - as a parent, I imagine this wondrous scenario several times a day, I can tell you that much. I won't believe in AGI until we have an automated solution to this problem.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

I can see two routes to this.

1. let's develop humanoid robots capable of doing every annoying task humans currently do

2. get a really, really big rug that you can just yank out from underneath everything, so all the mess just disappears

There are high tech answers and there are low tech answers.

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Daniel Nest's avatar

3. Get a really really big drug that you can just take and live in lalaland forever and forget all about the mess in the first place.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Can we do all three if we have more than three hundred billion dollars?

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Trevor Cohen's avatar

Interesting thought: can an egg be un-cracked? There is one creature that might be able to do it: the worm.

They can--after significant processing by other decomposers--eat the remnants of an egg and then, on the same day, be eaten by a chicken that lays the next morning.

Decomposers are dope! Thanks for composing, Andrew :)

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Some non-zero portion of that food may actually get into the egg due to osmosis! Wonder how much - no dibs on writing that one, though!

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Trevor Cohen's avatar

Haha! I'm sure some biology PhD candidate wrote their dissertation on the size of that non-zero portion, at some point :)

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Andrew Smith's avatar

There are a few of those folks here, in the comments. Literally!

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Sum's avatar

Be the alchemist that transforms chaos into order…like a person working on a picture puzzle…

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