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Currents 083: Joscha Bach on Synthetic Intelligence

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The Design of Organisms in Social Systems Is a Second Order Design

The design of organisms in social systems is also a second order design or an inside-out design. In nature, we look at systems that want to implement this function. They want to grow into this. Rather than designing a tree, nature starts with some seed. And the seedling grows into a tree by colonizing the environment around it. By building controllable feedback loops into the world, the organism is able to expand itself and become more powerful.

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