One should expect optimal solutions to be illegible.
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Replying to @St_Rev
Yes; the tricky bit is to not take tradition as optimal in a sacred way, for all the obvious reasons.
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Replying to @Meaningness @St_Rev
So the problem spec is to balance tradition with a rational systems view while preserving a conservative bias.
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Replying to @Meaningness @St_Rev
I have thought about this a lot, and I'll never have time to write about it. So I humbly propose:
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you're correct to think about the problem in terms of systems. An emergent feature of complex, >
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non-linear dynamic systems is the presence of local maxima/minima distinct from global max/min.
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A conservative can allow for the possibility of a higher optimum, somewhere else in the >
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multi-dimensional space. The difficult question is how to get there. That is where part 2 comes in.
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The model of "massively parallel optimizer" specifically appeals to evolution.
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So a prescriptive theory of conservatism should be based on seeding evolutionary processes.
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That makes sense!
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