Yep. And the same is true with Frank's trolling about the well-definedness of truth.
Consistency, like reduction and isolation, is a fantastic tool but a bad master. When
Hanson argues that we must continue to have babies or risk the halt of innovation, it's
with a fixed backdrop, worldview. Ad
Glen -
I think I agree with this spirit... and the invocation of a
high-dimensional (but finitely so) landscape is not only the constraints
we live in, but in some sense the ones we *choose* to live in? I think
excess/sloppy meaning might be another term for a local/temporary
increase (or
Well, *if* one is constrained to inhabiting attractors to begin with, then a mechanism for hopping
between attractors is a "good thing". But I'd argue that this is a mere band-aide,
treating the symptom rather than the cause. The real disorder is the tendency to inhabit attractors
... or perhap
Glen -
In the spirit of succinctness (succinctity?) my intuition aligns with
your argument here about the relevance/utility of flex/slop... I think
this is a corollary to Deacon's "absential" but to pursue it more
formally would puncture the walls of my aspired /succintity/.
At the risk of
As usual, there's too much in your post for me to follow a thread. But I can cherry-pick
this one: affect - or what it is to be about/for something. An option is to think in
terms of soft types such that the lower order objects over which the higher order
operators ... uh, operate, have some "f
https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/shrinking-economies-dont-innovate
I am fond of this style of (counter)thinking to the growth/innovation topic:
Economics for the Future: Beyond the Superorganism
It doesn't really argue the point (natalism and other quantitative
measures of growth?) direc
https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/shrinking-economies-dont-innovate
There's something about this rhetoric that seems to rely on hierarchical separation, the
separability of levels. I mean, obviously, if we draw a hard boundary around "innovation"
such that it only contains things we human organi
