
We saw wild robot film. Lots of pressed expressions about flight and nature robots and such. Right now it is saying how to make a kite like the goose in the movie. The part that seems most open is perhaps also controversial: "a rozzum always completes its task." This is a classic challenge in the pursuit of tasks -- to complete them reliably. And, it is where demons like the paperclip factory come from, as well as the realization that in a world of limits, conflicts, and changes, life comes from the discovery that we do not complete every task we consider. We have to adjust our goals to meet what makes sense in the universe, to succeed. "Always completing a task" is a classic "impossible" challenge akin to those I spam about. It's quite doable, especially if all the tasks set are easy to complete. Task completion seems to me based on prioritized exhaustion of available approaches to meeting them. One I suppose needs enough axioms to continue finding new useful approaches to meet tasks. Smart systems improve their own task pursuit. Let's skip that part (can feel painful