
David Deutsch on The Fun Criterion, Objective Beauty & Artificial Intelligence
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Is It a Forging?
Some of these insectivorous plants. Attract insects by first of all by smell. But I think they just smell like rotten meat, which is what the insects are attracted to anyway. That that's ordinary mimicry. So it's just evolution didn't have to reach so far because it just mimicked something and it worked. Rather than like the flowers, it had to compete with the flowers that didn't have pollen. And so it had to reach a beauty that's not forgeable. In this case, this is this is forging actually. Yes.
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