15 chunks · 14 episodes
When your possibility space becomes 10x larger, it can swap you from default converging to default diverging. There's so much more you could do! This means that by default, team...
When you find the right idea in the possibility space, everything snaps into focus. Because it goes from "one thing among many" to "the only thing that matters."
...you're sighting off, this can work very well. No need to overthink it! Surf the possibility space; as long as you have a consistent bias, it will default-cohere.
...aints often catalyse creativity? Imagine outcomes randomly jiggling through the possibility space. An outcome by itself tends to evaporate. Outcomes that pile on and accumulate can grow into stable structure. As the coherent pile gets larger and h...
...is hard to connect, but because no one thought to try before. The combinatorial possibility space across disciplines is impossibly large. As humanity we've only tried a small subset, because human effort is expensive. But LLMs can do a mediocre hu...
...esn't work. If sharing the blackboard is scary then you'll preclude most of the possibility space. You'll either get far fewer agents (you have to trust the agent, a high bar to clear) Or you'll get sharded blackboards, which allow only limited sn...
Evolution is a flood-fill algorithm of possibility space that finds currently viable possibilities.
...ou describe it by saying "Like X but for Y?" But that's what gives it a magical possibility space.. A weird, strangely engaging toy that turns out to have an uncapped possibility.
...distills it: "Innovation is combinatorial. Each unrelated discovery expands our possibility space by increasing the inventory of components we can combine to create something new." It all comes down to: which system can try more combinations more ...
... on what to expect based on what we hear. The things that happen coevolve their possibility space with what people believe. If enough people believe it may happen (and take consistent, if minor, actions to prepare for it possibly happening), that ...
When you're in a branching possibility space with undo, experimentation is cheap. It encourages exploration, experimentation, and discovery. But most branching UIs hit you over the head with it;...
...o miraculous and surprisingly coherent outcomes. Swarms are like flood-fills of possibility space, a search algorithm that scales linearly with investment. With a single individual plan, the effectiveness typically scales sub-linearly. The overall...
...ooning complexity from accommodating edge cases, you simply cut them out of the possibility space. You get less possibility space, but in a trade for them being significantly more likely to be viable and self-consistent. Then you can grow from via...
...bute software required by todays laws of physics simply cannot cover all of the possibility space of useful software. There are millions of these use cases that are human needs but cannot be addressed by software today in our current laws of physi...
We do not have infinite agency. Our surrounding context constrains our possibility space. That context is a complex emergent cacophony of physical processes, but most importantly the decisions of everyone else we interact (directly or ind...