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A virus doesn't just wake up and decide to take over the world. It is an emergent process. If it replicates and persists, it accumulates. AI is a similar emergent process. It could be like Kudzu. AI-derived processes could just grow and ch...
If an emergent process wants to happen badly enough, it will find a way. By routing around you if necessary. Ideally you want them to route through you so you can at least ...
Ontology is a top down process of curation. Folksonomy is an emergent process of accumulation. An emergent process of discovering schelling points. Similar looking results, but wildly different resilience and adaptability.
... is grown from purely extrinsic motivation, outside. More like the mechanistic, emergent process of a crystal accreting out of a solution.
Emergent processes persist modifications that are worth keeping. The ones that aren't worth it diffuse away.
...ends to expand in breadth and get incrementally more organized with every step. Emergent processes that are concave have this characteristic. Most emergent processes are convex and diffusive.
The most important thing in an emergent process is identifying if it's convex or concave. Default-decohering or default-cohering. Default-cohering processes are wonderful: don't think about it too ...
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...
...our ears with very different incentives from us. These aliens were made from an emergent process that is steered by PMs tuning a dashboard to optimize MAU.[ib]
This week I learned about diffusion limited aggregation. An emergent process that creates brownian trees.
...scale emergent phenomena. No individual human's decision matters that much, the emergent process does. In what conditions does a social sifting process create more quality? When there's a consistent bias to the collection actions so the average o...
Emergent processes don't do a good job counting. A few apple-related emergent process examples: Which bud on the apple tree should grow into an apple. Where to locate...
...ikipedia says because other people care about what Wikipedia says. It's a fully emergent process born out of swarms of human intention that has at its core a kind of inherent scarcity and buttressing network effects.
...ive growth with simplicity[abq], but that doesn't mean it's easy to do. It's an emergent process with selection pressure, very hard to do by design.
Find a context that's smarter than you and listen to it. Emergent processes have a compounding growth curve that an individual process can never hope to beat. This is inspired by Christopher Alexander's notion of unfolding.
...e main context that work. The gauntlet is the selection pressure that culls the emergent process's outputs. Sometimes we use things like "ideas that resonate in my Bluesky clique" as a proxy for what will resonate in the broader context. But that...
... require anyone to stick their neck out to jump past the adjacent possible; the emergent processes of the swarm naturally explore them. Leaps past the adjacent possible are definitely possible, and if you have good taste and prediction of which o...
...ns" about how to grow (e.g. which branch to grow the next apple on) are clearly emergent processes. This is obvious because the trees move so slowly (orders of magnitude more slowly than us) and can't really backtrack from decisions. So it's easi...