The most likely/frequent outcome of “trying to build something that will last” is failure. You tried to build an AI, but it doesn’t work. You tried to convince people that trade is better than violence, they cooked you for dinner. You tried to found a community, no one was interested. A group of friends couldn’t decide when and where to meet.
But if you succeed to… create a pattern that keeps going on… then the thing you describe is the second most likely outcome. It turns out that your initial creation had parts that were easier or harder to replicate, and the easier ones keep going and growing, and the harder ones gradually disappear. The fluffy animal died, but its skeleton keeps walking.
It’s like casting an animation spell on a thing, and finding out that the spell only affects certain parts of the thing, if any.
The most likely/frequent outcome of “trying to build something that will last” is failure. You tried to build an AI, but it doesn’t work. You tried to convince people that trade is better than violence, they cooked you for dinner. You tried to found a community, no one was interested. A group of friends couldn’t decide when and where to meet.
But if you succeed to… create a pattern that keeps going on… then the thing you describe is the second most likely outcome. It turns out that your initial creation had parts that were easier or harder to replicate, and the easier ones keep going and growing, and the harder ones gradually disappear. The fluffy animal died, but its skeleton keeps walking.
It’s like casting an animation spell on a thing, and finding out that the spell only affects certain parts of the thing, if any.