AI Accidentally Reinvents Trains
trains are to engineering as crabs are to biology. on a long enough timescale, if you optimize almost any system enough, you eventually get some form of either a train or a crab AI: trains NO NOT LIKE THAT [going through the source data sets with a machete, again] WHO TAUGHT YOU THAT WORD? It's... just inventing trains from scratch, spontaneously, every time we turn it on??
A screenshot shows a post arguing that sufficiently optimized systems eventually produce trains or crabs, followed by a fictional AI research thread. The researchers are horrified when their machine-learning system suggests trains and appears to invent them spontaneously. The meme is used to joke about AI systems producing bizarre, overly literal or emergent solutions.
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- @right_wing_dev_squads / 14234 2026-04-19
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