Moravec's paradox keeps resurfacing: humans still dominate data-scarce physical-economy tasks
zeeshanp_ · x · 2026-10-08
The author argues we haven't fully comprehended Moravec's paradox, which keeps appearing in subtle ways. It's commonly used to explain why robotics lags, but humans hold extreme advantages over the best models in many other complex fields of the physical economy where AI struggles. Truly enabling models to hill-climb these data-scarce, human-dominated domains would require new infrastructure — a 'harness for the physical world.'
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