With enough scale, every emergent system finds antisocial gravity wells that are hyper engaging.
- With enough scale, every emergent system finds antisocial gravity wells that are hyper engaging.
- Superficially meaningful but ultimately hollow.
From other episodes
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- We talk about collective intelligences all the time, naturally.2026-04-06
- Some systems are emergent, but many systems are not.2026-03-30
- Patient emergent systems will explore every nook and cranny of a space.2026-03-02
- If a more savvy user than you invested effort in a similar use case that worked well, the system should use that to solve your problem too.2025-12-08
- The emergent systems and the inputs are different.2025-12-08
- The only way to get an exponential-benefit-for-logarithmic-cost curve is to be downstream of an emergent system.2025-11-10
- A semi-permeable membrane is a key component for coherent emergent systems.2025-08-25