Ever wonder why businesses fall prey to shareholder value maximization type nihilism-by-optimization? It’s because they have no natural and organic goals. So if one isn’t grafted on and kept in place by an external force, they start solving for anti-goals like SHM.
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SHM isn’t a goal, it’s what takes over when an internal self-perpetuation motive meets an external extraction motive. It’s the institutional equivalent of careerist status-seeking. Be somebody over do something. Be blue-chip. Be Fortune 100. Be in the S&P.
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My space program will send consultant rovers to Mars. They will advise other rovers on their operations.
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Basic model will be inspection bot. A rover with an inspection camera that will do a round of another rover for $5000 plus travel expenses.
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The program goal will be to maximize distance-and-complexity-weighted mass beyond earth. Distance would have LEO at zero. Complexity = say Kolmogorov complexity of algorithms embodied by a rover, making it worth more than say an equivalent mass of paperclips.
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Apollo 11 Mission Controller Gene Kranz on the morning of the moon landing: "Hey gang, we're really gonna go and land on the moon today. This is no bull****, we're going to go land on the moon. We're about to do something that no one has ever done.
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"Be aware that there's a lot of stuff that we don't know about the environment that we're ready to walk into, but be aware that I trust you implicitly. But also I'm aware that we're all human.
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I guess this is why it's one of the ways to win the Civilization games.
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