Jordi Faulí, the chief architect currently overseeing the works, said Gaudí equipped his successors with a design logic which has been helped by the use of digital modelling software, 3D printing and industrial robots.
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Christopher Lamb,
CNN Money,
10 June 2026
Taken far enough, and with enough compute, the blog post said such an approach could lead to recursive self-improvement—an AI system capable of autonomously designing, building, and improving its own successors.
As old empires and kingdoms dissolved and capitalist economies took hold, Jews were among the most visible beneficiaries of these massive social transformations.
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Daniel May,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
In it, Godfrey-Smith explores the nature of conscious minds and how those minds come to shape their environments as active participants in evolution — not just passive beneficiaries of natural processes.
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