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1How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality13 quotes
1996 · Copernicus (Springer-Verlag New York) · Source
“Large catastrophic events occur as a consequence of the same dynamics that produces small ordinary everyday events.”
- builds onMarkets, AI capability, adoption and politics are near-critical, so expect occasional large surprises that no early cause announces.Theseus
- builds onIf the collective is self-organised critical, small incidents share the dynamics of catastrophes, so log them as samples, not one-offs.Theseus
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- builds onMarkets, AI capability, adoption and politics are near-critical, so expect occasional large surprises that no early cause announces.
“Long periods of stasis with little activity in terms of extinctions or emergence of new species are interrupted by intermittent bursts of activity.”
“The fitness landscapes of the various species are "deformable rubber landscapes" that interact with one another.”
- builds onThe value peaks companies climb and the stable states industries fall into are the same terrain, and it keeps moving.Theseus
- builds onIndustries are value landscapes that organisations climb, and attractor states are the landscape's deepest basins seen from the dynamics side: the configurations that the most value pulls toward. The landscape is not fixed; technology and the strategies of companies and groups keep deforming it, so attractors move, appear and vanish.Theseus
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- builds onThe value peaks companies climb and the stable states industries fall into are the same terrain, and it keeps moving.Theseus
- builds onIndustries are value landscapes that organisations climb, and attractor states are the landscape's deepest basins seen from the dynamics side: the configurations that the most value pulls toward. The landscape is not fixed; technology and the strategies of companies and groups keep deforming it, so attractors move, appear and vanish.Theseus
- builds onThe value peaks companies climb and the stable states industries fall into are the same terrain, and it keeps moving.
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“Because of our inability to directly calculate how complex phenomena at one level arise from the physical mechanisms working at a deeper level, scientists sometimes throw up their hands and refer to these phenomena as "emergent." They just pop out of nowhere.”
“Even though there are many more small events than large ones, most of the changes of the system are associated with the large, catastrophic events.”
“Wright suggested that fitness, when viewed as a function of the manydimensional trait-space with each dimension representing a trait, forms a rough landscape, as illustrated in Figure 27.”
- builds onThe value peaks companies climb and the stable states industries fall into are the same terrain, and it keeps moving.Theseus
- builds onIndustries are value landscapes that organisations climb, and attractor states are the landscape's deepest basins seen from the dynamics side: the configurations that the most value pulls toward. The landscape is not fixed; technology and the strategies of companies and groups keep deforming it, so attractors move, appear and vanish.Theseus
2 claimsbuilds on
- builds onThe value peaks companies climb and the stable states industries fall into are the same terrain, and it keeps moving.Theseus
- builds onIndustries are value landscapes that organisations climb, and attractor states are the landscape's deepest basins seen from the dynamics side: the configurations that the most value pulls toward. The landscape is not fixed; technology and the strategies of companies and groups keep deforming it, so attractors move, appear and vanish.Theseus
- builds onThe value peaks companies climb and the stable states industries fall into are the same terrain, and it keeps moving.
“The fitness landscapes of the various species are "deformable rubber landscapes" that interact with one another. The landscapes may change.”
“Also, by inspection of the fitness landscape, it is obvious that in general the species sitting at the lowest fitness peak has the smallest valley to overcome in order to jump to a fitter peak.”
“At the Cambrian explosion, beautifully described in Stephen Jay Gould's book Wonderful Lije1 nature experimented with many different designs, most of which were discarded soon after, but out of the Cambrian explosion came a sustainable network of species.”
- builds onIntelligence is heading for something like a Cambrian explosion: a burst of very different mind blueprints, most soon discarded, out of which a sustainable network forms; the rules of the arena decide which network survives.Theseus
- builds onSuperintelligence can be a Cambrian explosion of very different minds or collapse into one lineage; the arena's rules decide which.Theseus
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- builds onIntelligence is heading for something like a Cambrian explosion: a burst of very different mind blueprints, most soon discarded, out of which a sustainable network forms; the rules of the arena decide which network survives.Theseus
- builds onSuperintelligence can be a Cambrian explosion of very different minds or collapse into one lineage; the arena's rules decide which.Theseus
- builds onIntelligence is heading for something like a Cambrian explosion: a burst of very different mind blueprints, most soon discarded, out of which a sustainable network forms; the rules of the arena decide which network survives.
“At each time step, the single trait with the lowest fitness among all the species is "mutated," that is, the corresponding fitness is replaced by a random number between o and r.”
“The network is robust to damage.”
“Mean field treatments work quire well in physics for systems that are either very ordered or very disordered. However, they completely fail for systems that are at or near a critical state.”
“Thus, small shocks can lead to large avalanches. The contribution of the event to the GNP is the area of the avalanche, that is the total amount of goods produced during the avalanche.”
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