Language and evolution are emergent processes of tons of little contextual micro votes.
- Language and evolution are emergent processes of tons of little contextual micro votes.[gx]
- If you don't look carefully you won't see anywhere it shows up directly because in any given instance the noise dominates.
- But if the bias is consistent it doesn't matter how noisy it is.
- The consistency of the bias is more important than its strength.
- The noise falls away at scale and all that's left is the bias: the signal.
- The noise is camouflage that hides any given instance of input.
- "Where does evolution come from?"
- You can't see any individual instance.
- You can only see the full emergent result.
- Only if you blur your eyes can you see it.
- Like a Magic Eye illustration.
- Sarumans look at each instance and don't see anything interesting so they conclude there's nothing interesting at all.