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In reflecting upon the part played by chance in the development of new concepts, he recalled the story of the three princes of Serendip who set out to find some interesting object on a journey through their realm. They did not find the particular object of their search, but along the way they discovered many new things simply because they were looking for something.
Men, Machines, and Modern Times
Morison, Elting Elmore
This adaptive rationale leads to differential fitness and relative survival. All in all, adaptivity involves finding a balance between coherence and diversity, robustness and dynamics, and order and chaos. This balance is called ‘fitness’ or ‘resilience’.
(PDF) Complexity and Planning: Systems, Assemblages and Simulations
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Stuart Chase and others have come near to claiming that all abstract words are meaningless, and have used this as a pretext for advocating a kind of political quietism. Since you don’t know what Fascism is, how can you struggle against Fascism?
Rationality: From AI to Zombies
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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