
Daniel Schmachtenberger: Self-terminating Civilization (E34)
A New and Ancient Story: The Podcast
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Evolution Is a Process of Increasing Complexity
complexity that doesn't have emergent property doesn't get selected for so it's ordered complexity in a certain way. The paperclip maximizer takes complex stuff and makes simple stuff out of it, he says. "The tree is self-organizing and self-healing if I burn the forest the forest will regrow right" If you take something anti-fragile or resilient and turn it into something non-resilient and fragile I try to capture it for one type of beneficiary but with many value types as well.
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