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Ask HN: Law about X (i.e. Conway, Moore's, etc.)
Is there a ~Law~ which says something like the following: No entity can be created that is more complex than the entity that creates it.
I bumped into a video of F. V. Hayek, and his whole argument hinges on that -- 'was wondering if
there was a namespace for that idea.
- nostrademons 11y agoThere's something similar in Gall's Law: "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)#Gall.27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)#Gall.27s_la... I've never heard of the quote as stated, though. I don't believe it to be true: much of what we know about life and evolution would be impossible if so, since we were all "created" from bacteria.