“the absence of trees becoming grass-like indicates that there’s no nice/large path in evolution-trajectory-space which is continuously competitive” and I’m gesturing towards the known-to-be-difficult C3/C4 distinction as a potentially-relevant feature of that space
It’s funny; in 2026 this strikes me as very characteristically Claude-generated.
(This observation was profound enough to me that I have modified my instructions to ask Claude not to use compound adjectives to define nouns in-context too often.)
It’s funny; in 2026 this strikes me as very characteristically Claude-generated. (This observation was profound enough to me that I have modified my instructions to ask Claude not to use compound adjectives to define nouns in-context too often.)