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Start with a simple analog Braitenberg vehicle and learn how to ascribe intelligent behaviour to a purely mechanical system.

No, Mr Horvath did. I changed the title accordingly.

Nice.

You're welcome. Thinking about it, the previous version probably would have led to more interesting answers. Like yours.


If I understand correctly, it's paranoid AI, discussing conspiracy theories about paranoid people, discussing conspiracy theories about paranoid AI, discussing conspiracy theories about paranoid people, discussing conspiracy theories about ... <infinite self-referential recursive loop> ... ? My inner Douglas Hofstaedter likes that!


Nice, looks tasty!

So, Kudzu?

Or Industrial waste like in France around 2012?

https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/blue-and-green-hon...

https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/blue-and-green-hon...

And on Banggi, a Malaysian island, there is supposedly green honey!

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361629042_Physicoch...


In NYC, they found red honey which was coming from bees drinking at a maraschino cherry factory:

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/nyregion/30bigcity.html

Unrelated, but that led to the police finding a marijuana grow operation in the basement:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/nyregion/secret-marijuana...


The New Yorker article about it also has some additional details: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/23/the-maraschino...


Perhaps this was not unrelated after all, as the bee detectives might have sensed the smell of the flowers.


An NC state professor previously determined it's aluminum reacting with acid in the bees' stomachs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501058


I stopped watching the video when the first ships approached Old London Bridge, which were clearly too tall to pass through, and fortunately the camera angle changed before I had to witness the AI shipwreck.


This reminds me of Dr. Adrian Thompson's interesting findings from the mid-1990s on the influence of electromagnetic phenomena in evolvable hardware on FPGAs.

https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/

Of course, the substrate being researched back then is different from human wetware.


That reminds me of how the manufacturer's customer service department for my car some thirty years ago tried to convince me that the problems with the ignition electronics could also be caused by solar flares. Which could have been the case, of course, but then it would surely have affected other vehicle owners as well. Though, maybe the sun did shine just for me back then, you can never be sure, can't you. I briefly considered consulting an astronomer.


There was a funny story about how sun shining on a UV sensitive electronic component was the root cause of a mysterious failure that was time and day dependent.


Dull Jay.


"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."

Susan Ertz. Anger in the Sky. Hodder & Stoughton. 1943


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