Thinking a lot about ratchets lately. Internal and external. Ratchets are more fundamental than clocks. Things that can only grow in one direction, and reversed only via destruction.
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Some evolutionary ones: - Peacocks growing ever-more flamboyant tail feathers to signal fitness until they can't fly/feed themselves - Rabbits breeding until food in niche exhausted, population crashes - Dog breeds getting more & more hobbled by human coddling/selection
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Human recognition of the absurd might be the most powerful halting mechanism to avoid blowup AI might need some similar absurdity mechanism to keep from perpetual self-improvement until it exhausts all resources (paperclip problem). Not clear what the healthy limits would be
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