# Moravec's Paradox  ## Metadata - Author: [[wikipedia.org]] - Full Title: Moravec's Paradox - Category: #articles - URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox ## Highlights - **Moravec's paradox** is the observation by [artificial intelligence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence) and [robotics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotics) researchers that, contrary to traditional assumptions, [reasoning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasoning) requires very little computation, but [sensorimotor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_processing#Sensorimotor_system) and perception skills require enormous computational resources. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h5ejzmp18gcpsx63c7dqhmka)) - We should expect the difficulty of reverse-engineering any human skill to be roughly proportional to the amount of time that skill has been evolving in animals. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h5ek3awk8a21b3kgw28a1y7p)) - Therefore, we should expect skills that appear effortless to be difficult to reverse-engineer, but skills that require effort may not necessarily be difficult to engineer at all. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h5ek33g47pvr96gq7anxevpb))