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...selected out. If they aren't actively useful, they erode and fade back into the background noise, averaging away into nothing. Useful things are conserved This is true no matter how they originally came to be. Useful just means they help out the ...
...-taking is cheap, that judgment is applied less, and it all becomes cacophonous background noise you have to sift through later to find value.
...money is easy! One requires you to create something that can stand out from the background noise, resist entropy, cohere as a thing. Entropy points in the direction of losing money, naturally. You have to fight upstream to make money. Just becaus...
...e. We're more the same than different. But the sameness kind of averages out as background noise and so all we attend to is the difference.
...nto what makes you different, not what makes you the same. Don't merge into the background noise.
...y. This is of course the Coasian theory of the firm. A firm distills out of the background noise, a shelling point sublimating out of the chaos into a coherent, bounded entity to allow a particular thing to be done.
...essful thing. But a Saruman will do something coherent that stands out from the background noise. Something that cuts through the nebulosity to cohere as a distinct thing. And some of those somethings will turn out to be useful and survive.
...the feature will never be prioritized. It will never stand out from the chaotic background noise of user requests. The bigger the app is, the more this effect dominates. This is the dynamic that drives the phenomena in Ivan's excellent The Tyrann...
...e taste (or so I hear). AI creates a massive firehose of content, a cacophonous background noise. In a cacophony, people will flock to the entities with the best taste. Taste is the final moat.
...ng this kind of chaff significantly easier than ever before. This will create a background noise level that is cacophonous, and finding real information will get increasingly difficult. In some ways, this is postmodernism to the terrifying extrem...
...'t, it would be a cacophony and impossible for any signal to be heard above the background noise. The more narrow the pipe to another system, the more signal that has to be elided, perhaps many many orders of magnitude. Knowhow is a complex set o...