2| The fringes represent the independent thinkers attempting to find usable information outside the mainstream that can be contributed to the Collective Wisdom. The fringes steer the population away from stagnation + towards evolution. The central cluster maintains cohesion.
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3| Both groups are necessary in balance. It is this push/pull relationship that keeps the ship afloat + antifragile to dangerous information. By gaining from new information contrary to the central narrative, evolution occurs.
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4| A proper reward structure is essential for maintaining the networks functionality + evolution. Tollbooths (oligopical control) that dictate what enters the Collective Wisdom (central narrative) is a fundamental threat to the integrity + evolution of the entire network.
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5| This connected network is the greatest achievement of human civilization. The possibilities can be purely beautiful + truly terrifying. It is essential to have the fundamentals properly executed. The expected future is changing at an exponential rate. Buckle up.
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FYI this was all known decades ago. It's the basic wisdom that emerged from the very first agent-based models of CAS. The sugarscape simulation, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugarscape Many others look at networks this way. Attribution to our forebears is a nice thing

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More precisely, given an adaptive landscape w/ both global and local maxima, the optimal emergent strategy is for the majority of a population to cluster atop the most recently discovered local maxima, while a small group search for a higher maxima at greater risk to their lives.
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Certainly, I think we can more incentivize those on the fringes taking risk. Standardization comes at a great cost in innovation -> productivity increases.
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Yeah, it's always a tradeoff between incremental movement given paradigms that are still yielding dividends, and high-risk / high-reward strategies that seek to open new frontiers. Have you ever read Kuhn's essay "The Essential Tension"?
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No. Interested. What I see largely, is entrenchment of institutions/ideologies that have survived via utilization of economic inefficiencies.
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Those innovators who discover new global maxima eventually become kings of castles sitting atop a hill that must be abandoned in order to survive the rising tides of entropy. Of course, they'll become the strongest voices claiming that we don't need to leave their hill.
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I find they end up controlling the tides.
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No one truly controls the tides of entropy, though they certainly invest heavily in wave machines
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