Emergent processes persist modifications that are worth keeping.
- Emergent processes persist modifications that are worth keeping.
- The ones that aren't worth it diffuse away.
From other episodes
- A virus doesn't just wake up and decide to take over the world.2026-03-23
- If an emergent process wants to happen badly enough, it will find a way.2026-02-09
- Ontology is a top down process of curation.2025-12-08
- When LLMs are trained, they grow not like a plant but a crystal.2025-10-06
- The most important thing in an emergent process is identifying if it's convex or concave.2025-07-28
- If Wikipedia waited to figure out the ontology before starting they never would have started.2025-07-28
- Language and evolution are emergent processes of tons of little contextual micro votes.2025-06-30
- LLMs are like aliens whispering in our ears with very different incentives from us.2025-06-23