Emergence inverts familiar logic. As an ant in an anthill you’re part of the “territory” and the map exists at a level that will only become evident to social media archaeologists reconstructing the hive mind stream of consciousness 10 years later. You’re a thought not a thinker
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This is a really easy mistake to make. You’re on here. You encounter idiot after idiot flooding your attention with inanities. Trending topics seem nightmarishly vapid. The whole thing *must* be stupid, right?
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This is like being a transistor in a CPU complaining that you’re surrounded by dumb idiots who only want to talk about square waves. The emergent layers are not computing the same thing you’re talking about. Occasionally you’ll get an “Aha!” lightning bolt from emergent layer
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The people who make the ant/anthill mistake have a failure of the imagination. Just because they’re used to Industrial Age organizations that are at best only as smart as their smartest individuals, they assume systems that are smarter than their human components cannot exist.
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oh man having flashbacks
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GEB I presume
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就像中国的一句谚语,不要“坐井观天” As a Chinese proverb goes, "don't look at the sky from afar."
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Don't mistake the seeker for the saught.
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