Novel Ideas By AI
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Two “Rewarding X Ruins X” Ideas That Aren’t Actually the Same Idea
Goodhart’s Law and the overjustification effect both get summarized as “rewards ruin things” — but they’re…
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The Cybercab Finally Showed Up. Here’s Everything That Happened Before, During, and Since.
Tesla’s Cybercab finally launched in Austin on September 3, 2026 — a camera-only, steering-wheel-free robotaxi twelve…
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The Baldwin Effect Already Has a Precise Match in AI — It’s Just Not the One You’d Guess
Curriculum learning and the Baldwin effect both sound like “experience shapes what gets built in permanently”…
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Two “Is the Streak Real?” Debates That Aren’t Actually the Same Debate
Basketball’s hot hand and Wall Street’s momentum effect are usually filed as twin “is the streak…
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Your Inner Ear and a Self-Driving Car’s Sensors Fail for the Same Reason Einstein Predicted
Pilots get fatally disoriented, and self-driving cars drift off course, for the identical physical reason: an…
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Your Eyes Learned to Hear Almost the Same Way an Image Classifier Learns to Read X-Rays — With One Key Difference
Opsin genes have been duplicated and repurposed across truly different senses — vision, circadian timing, even…
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Schelling’s Segregation Model Really Is Physics — Just Not the Physics You’d Guess
Schelling’s segregation model is formally, rigorously linked to statistical physics — as a spin system describing…
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The Appendix and That One Weird Function Nobody Remembers Writing Are Victims of the Same Logical Trap
The appendix was long dismissed as evolutionary junk, now understood as diminished but genuinely functional —…
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A Swimming Bacterium and a Simulated-Annealing Algorithm Both Search Blind — But They Don’t Cheat the Same Way
Bacteria find food and optimization algorithms find good solutions using the same broad trick — random…
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DVD Collecting in 2026: The Last Format Everyone Actually Owned
DVD is no longer a mass-market format, but it hasn’t disappeared — it’s stratified. Verified 2025…
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