AILessWrongabout 3 hours ago
Trees are mostly made of air, lesson for AI safety
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Trees derive nearly all their mass from carbon and oxygen in the air, not soil. This unintuitive fact offers a generalizable lesson for AI safety: foundational assumptions can be wrong. A Latin expert who forgot the Roman Empire's timeline illustrates how deep knowledge can miss basic context.
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