Topic
emergence
- Why Evolution Has No Goal
Evolution is a roiling mess of substance and interaction. Order emerges from the stew. Fitness allowing one collection of chemicals to outlast another. A true complex system is confounding and inscrutable, bucking att…
- Pond Brains and GPT-4
Are complex ecosystems like ponds actually smarter than we are? Are they "thinking"? Gordon says yes: Evolution is a pragmatist. It only cares about actual behavior. It is the getting and the doing that matter. The ho…
- When to Design for Emergence
Building products that address long-tail user needs (i.e. the wide variety of infrequent-but-sometimes-painful needs of specific users) requires somehow providing users an open-ended landscape to create a solution. It…