If you can't die you can't make meaningful bets.

· Bits and Bobs 3/30/26
  • If you can't die you can't make meaningful bets.
    • If you could die from your bet, you make it with your full being.
    • Death is how you get diversity of ideas.
      • Old ideas die from old age.
        • A kind of term limit, that prevents the system from getting stuck.
      • New ideas rise up to replace them.
    • Could you implement an idea lab structure built out of an agent swarm?
      • It seems intuitively like you perhaps could not… the agents can't die, so they have no existential draw to the ideas they randomly espouse.

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