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> Creativity should not be part of infrastructure efforts on a level beyond embellishments and experiments.

You could say the same about architecture, but only modern architects think that way, because they were brainwashed by fashion.




I do say the same about architecture, but with added nuance: the Sagrada Familia is creative in form, but not in function. It functions as a regular cathedral (or at least an art museum). The creativity is there, but it is subservient to the basic functional goals of structural integrity and fitness for humans to visit it.


Buckminster Fuller is creativity. Geodesic domes, tensegrity.

Failing to understand that is evidence you can be replaced by an AI that encompasses all of what's ALREADY known and understood.

The reality is, we're looking at an arms race between imagination and execution. And just implementing that which we already know is profoundly devalued in the age of machine-assisted intelligence.




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