Growth is partly driven by selecting good solutions. Fragmenting civilization at a high level gives you more chances to find a good solution. Think of it as an explore/exploit trade-off.

Huh.

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OK, my remaining guess is a lensing effect of some sort but I'm not sure how exactly you'd set this up.

The latter + specialization of labour.

Yeah, that's true.

"Every day of my life I've known less than I did the day before. By linear extrapolation, I must have been the most knowledgable man in the world at one point."

I didn't know what you were referencing w/ the flag or the Branch Norvidians name, and didn't want to reveal my ignorance. So you might as well explain the whole thing to me.

Wait, *inside the event horizon*? That is a lot more confusing.

he didn't really have to remember how to do solid state calculations or know the machinery of cosmic inflation because he had colleagues for that, even though at one point he did know that. Going further yet, he said this was as it should be.

, perhaps the formal derivation of Ito's Lemma in the stochastic calculus or somesuch, noting that he didn't have to remember things like that, but as young physicists we should. However, as an older physicist, he could get away with looking it up in a reference text. He went further and said that

Yep, this is a common way to offload reasoning. Many moons ago, I was sittting in an advanced statistical physics course where our spanish professor, who regularly opined on the little crufts of habit that form the role he played as a physicist, did not remember how to do some particular calculation

I guess a wormhole? Wait, no, the apple would disintegrate if the wormhole is inside the blackhole. I mean, I guess the obvious answer is: someone fell in and shot an apple outward before they fell in, but I guess this doesn't count for some reason?

Rotating the norvidcluster through wordspace till we find its True Name.

Dang, that's good.

I'm guessing Niplav is talking about Hanson's desire for more cultures which vary on high-level parameters.

I haven't tried it myself, but using activation steering as another tool to examine model preferences is a good idea IMO. So far I've only tried w/ meta-preferences.

Norvid's simpcluster.

poorly understood atm that I'm not confident in my own analysis here. Maybe he's right, who knows?

SOOOO many fragmented post-human groups trying out different things and exploring large parts of the search spac before they encountered aliens. So I'm not sure what the aliens are adding here, really. Our descendants will be like aliens to each other. But Michael's a smart dude and this stuff is so

simulation environments, software accelerators etc. There are more ways to do things like this and which bundle you wind up with is kind path-dependant or something. Now, I'd still be suprised if aliens really came up with many substantially different bundles to us since we're going to have

I think Nielsen is less talking about nanotech type stuff where this is some basic machinery w/ not so big a design space (they're small! you just want them to move stuff around fast, cheap, and precisely!) and more like, IDK, bundles of goods you need to optimize together like chip designs,

Stop, you've gone too far! That's more kikki than Man was meant to know!

Irony will be the death of me but at least we'll both be numb.

*bleet redacted

*burnt

*uncollided

: )

Have to? HAVE TO? You don't "have to", you've just got a will issue. I once saw a man bite through the an orange and eat it, rind an all. If he can do that, you can eat 30 raw onions in a day.