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...has already sublimated out of the chaos. If you try to do this at too high of a pace layer, the overall meta distillation cannot cohere because the individual components have too much chaotic energy. Once a meta ecosystem coheres out of the...
...e flexibility was just too important. An ASIC takes the logic into a much lower pace layer that is expensive and slow to change. A general purpose chip allows the logic to change in software, many pace layers higher. LLMs aren't the best at...
...ind and possibly out-competed. In those situations, you must grow quickly. Fast pace layers almost require messy, incoherent growth.
Different pace layers have different rates of healthy process. The higher the variance, the less process you want per unit. The higher the pace layer, the higher the vari...
...with their surrounding context. If you're trying to build a product at a higher pace layer, but it has to fit into a lower, slower pace layer, you'll get bogged down. You need to go as slow as the slowest pace layer you interact with that c...
...more resilient; wrapped in multiple layers of self-reinforcing and accelerating pace layers of the ecosystem. But to do this, you must give up control. You must give up control to the user to customize, including a potentially dizzying arra...
It's hard for software to be timeless. Software is at the level of bits; a high pace layer. If a given piece of software doesn't move quickly, it will be outmaneuvered by competitors. Software also tends to be used in coordination with othe...
...rand - Steward Brand In complex systems, it's the interactions across different pace layers that make the system robust. Civilization overall is robust because it is complex. Fast / Slow Learns / remembers Proposes / disposes Absorbs shocks...
.... In a changing context, adaptation is necessary to avoid death. The higher the pace layer you operate in, the more quickly the context will change, and the more important adaptation will be. Software (bits vs atoms) is at a higher pace lay...