I live with five friends in a big house, and two things I’ve done in it on this particular Sunday are hide 156 easter eggs all around, and reach a tentative joint decision on the allocation of four of its rooms.

These tasks are delightful to me for a reason they have in common, and from which I hope to gesture at extremely far reaching conclusions.

Easter eggs

A room usually seems like a simple thing to me—a big box, with some smaller mostly boxish objects and holes in it. Each of those things also usually seems simple: a cupboard is a box-shaped hole, with a movable thin-box-shaped front, which has hinges (the most complicated part, but in this picture their only qualities are letting flat surfaces rotate around fixed edges). Sometimes a cupboard has shelves, which are like planes breaking up the space.

In this picture, hiding easter eggs well is hard! Like, I could put one in the cupboard? On the top shelf? Or the bottom shelf! They’ll never find it there!

These are not good hiding places.

In order to hide easter eggs well, you need to see a lot [...]

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Outline:

(00:32) Easter eggs

(04:54) Rooms

(06:10) Classic puzzles

(06:35) AI risk

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