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Because emergent systems respond to incentives fluidly without needing centralized coordination. They outperform designed systems.
by exolymph 10y ago
Because emergent systems respond to incentives fluidly without needing centralized coordination. They outperform designed systems.
- tomcam 10y agoCitation? In my opinion, emergent systems have a very high mortality rate
- exolymph 10y agoYou're right, I didn't phrase what I meant very precisely. This comment expressed the same sentiment much better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13777826 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13777826
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- djrogers 10y agoThere is a huge selection bias in that statement - emergent systems often don't make it past the first opposing stimulus, so you're only considering the ones that evolve past a certain point.
- exolymph 10y agoThat's fair! What I meant is roughly equivalent to this better-worded comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13777826 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13777826