Category: Systems

Solution Evolution

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Special opportunities arise, sometimes,
from within the system,
and don't seem to make much sense, 
or be useful, till you flex them.

I came across a broken pen, 
that bled black ink into an official form;
which I folded and unfolded 
into an accidental Rorschach.

I could see a sort of bat, 
carrying something in its claws,
maybe food, a scraggy insect, held tight​ 
(and just about covering a date: the tax form deadline).

So must have happened with a first finger, 
absurd, pointless, misdirected,
and likely born long before,
a proper nose to pick in.

But a rap and a tippy, tip, tap, tap 
and four more would soon emerge,
looking desperately for a forehead,
to surprise with a slap: "Aha!".

Powering Superintelligence…

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Many expect intelligence, mediated by technological development, to be growing indefinitely. However to grow indefinitely it cannot be dependent on scarce resources such as those that define the complexity of the ecosystem on earth. An indefinitely growing intelligence needs to be driven toward new abundant resources, maybe in space, or on different planets.

If it were not driven toward new resources, and shared our limited ecosystem, then by definition it could not grow indefinitely. And if it should not be able to grow indefinitely, it would be exposed to suffer a Tragedy of the Commons resource depletion, just as we have… which would not be very intelligent.