Ugly, Brute-Force Solutions Win: AI Circle Debates What Our Taste for Elegance Cost Us
shakoistsLog · x · 2026-10-08
seanfromearth argues there's a bitter-lesson-adjacent truth: ugly and brute-force solutions are often (maybe always) the most effective ones — perhaps we've always been held back by our ideals of beauty and elegance, and soulless AI can see the answers we avoided. shakoistsLog shared it with "we're just having a little fun."
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