I… don’t think I’m taking the hidden order of the universe non-seriously. If it matters, I’ve been obsessively rereading Christopher Alexander’s “The nature of order” books, and trying to find ways to express some of what he’s looking at in LW-friendly terms; this post is part of an attempt at that. I have thousands and thousands of words of discarded drafts about it.
Re: why I think there might be room in the universe for multiple aspirational models of agency, each of which can be self-propagating for a time, in some contexts: Biology and culture often seem to me to have multiple kinda-stable equilibria. Like, eyes are pretty great, but so is sonar, and so is a sense of smell, or having good memory and priors about one’s surroundings, and each fulfills some of the same purposes. Or diploidy and haplodiploidy are both locally-kinda-stable reproductive systems.
What makes you think I’m insufficiently respecting the hidden order of the universe?
I… don’t think I’m taking the hidden order of the universe non-seriously. If it matters, I’ve been obsessively rereading Christopher Alexander’s “The nature of order” books, and trying to find ways to express some of what he’s looking at in LW-friendly terms; this post is part of an attempt at that. I have thousands and thousands of words of discarded drafts about it.
Re: why I think there might be room in the universe for multiple aspirational models of agency, each of which can be self-propagating for a time, in some contexts: Biology and culture often seem to me to have multiple kinda-stable equilibria. Like, eyes are pretty great, but so is sonar, and so is a sense of smell, or having good memory and priors about one’s surroundings, and each fulfills some of the same purposes. Or diploidy and haplodiploidy are both locally-kinda-stable reproductive systems.
What makes you think I’m insufficiently respecting the hidden order of the universe?
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