Know-how optimizes for efficiency.
Enterprise optimizes for revenue.
Organic evolution optimizes for survival.
Spirituality optimizes for compassion (non-aggression).
How does this work out in actual life?
To achieve success, any expertise should optimize for efficiency.
Which means working the identical course of with much less vitality, in much less time, or with better accuracy.
Take computer systems, for example. They have been optimized primarily for efficiency (measured in velocity of CPU and information storage). When you evaluate the evolution in measurement of computer systems from, let’s say, the final 20 years, with their evolution in efficiency, you’ll get unimaginable numbers. By way of measurement, they most likely shrunk 10-20x. A desktop from round 20 years in the past is roughly 20x larger than a laptop computer. However when it comes to processing energy and storage, the rise was 100-200x, not less than. An order of magnitude greater.
In expertise, all assets are targeting efficiency, and value is much less vital.
A enterprise is measured by the revenue it creates. What’s left after you are taking out funding and operational value, that’s the core of the enterprise.
Which means a enterprise is working the identical course of with rising monetary returns.
Look how enterprise is barely barely overlapping with expertise right here.
You don’t all the time pay the identical for a similar quantity of efficiency. All smartphones have roughly the identical technical traits. And but, a few of them are promoting for lots greater than others. Optimization performed in areas like branding, communication, advertising influences closely the returns.
An organism is alleged to regulate when it capabilities in such a approach that its present buildings shall be predictably supported.
Which means evolution runs the identical course of (life) time and again, with elevated adaptation to the context.
We already know that survival just isn’t a characteristic of the strongest, however of the fittest. And by fittest it means “the one most tailored to the circumstances”.
It will get fascinating now for those who mix the earlier two optimizations. Generally, as a dwelling organism, it’s worthwhile to generate revenue (or fats, like bears do to regulate to the winter), and that’s a enterprise sort of optimization. Whereas different occasions you want generate extra accuracy (for those who’re searching, for example), or greater velocity (for those who run by somebody who’s searching you), that are each expertise kinds of optimization.
These two optimizations are used in another way, primarily based on the context, as a result of that’s what evolution does: it adjusts to the context.
A religious particular person does no hurt (very, very fundamental description, I do know, however naked with me).
Which means spirituality runs the identical course of (dwelling consciously) by avoiding violence and aiming for unconditional cohesion with different human beings, on the idea that we’re all the identical, and all of us need the identical factor: to be blissful.
Optimizing for spirituality means avoiding contexts by which violence is required, and even accepting loss or wounds, so as to stay within the non-violent house.
Optimizing for spirituality can also be probably the most advanced optimization of all.
It’s essential to stay alive to be religious (useless persons are useless, they’re not religious in any approach), so meaning optimizing for evolution.
It’s essential to turn into higher at your apply (whichever that’s) so it’s worthwhile to optimize for higher, extra correct processes (similar to expertise does).
And, when you perceive that your properly being is totally interconnected with the properly being of all beings, you then additionally have to optimize for getting extra returns, simply to have the ability to give again to the others. Generally these returns are monetary (the Church is among the oldest, most worthwhile establishments within the latest human historical past), typically they’re simply status (which is extra fragile than money, but additionally extra versatile).
Optimizing an excessive amount of on some elements will get you past the purpose.
If we speak about spirituality, for example, optimizing an excessive amount of on accuracy, like in doing empty prayers and rituals, with out understanding the top purpose (cohesion) will make you a parrot, at finest, and a human bomb, at worst. Optimizing an excessive amount of on the monetary income, will make you a brief lived sect, by triggering greed in your adepts. Optimizing an excessive amount of on evolution, like adjusting to the context, will most likely make you give in to non permanent politics, simply to stay alive.
I discover it tough to stay to a definitive reply.
I feel more often than not we’re pushed to optimize for revenue. That is very seen in crypto, with all of the apeing and infinite hunt for chunky APYs. That is rooted in a official worry that we ain’t gonna make it if we keep on with the present context.
And with that we’re segueing into evolution, as crypto seems to be like a greater guess when it comes to adjusting to context. Even when it’s only a hedge, it’s an evolutionary benefit towards actors who’re utilizing just one basket (government-backed fiat) for his or her vitality storage.
Generally we additionally have to optimize for expertise, which was the dominant pattern in crypto for the final 2-3 years, when the principle purpose was velocity and vertical scaling. Sooner or later we are going to hit a sure wall, by which aiming for an excessive amount of efficiency will merely turn into pointless, no one will use that. 1,000,000 TPS seems to be attractive now, however who’s going to want that? What’s the use case? Is it value it?
What I discover extraordinarily fascinating, although, is that, one way or the other, crypto is best positioned for religious optimization, as in not doing hurt. Hackers and exploiters apart, I feel all the blockchain structure makes it approach simpler to simply not do hurt, it leaves much less of an assault floor to greed. It’s as collective as a course of could be (the blockchain can’t run with out validators). It’s virtually frictionless, when you be taught the way it works (each motion produces results virtually instantly). It’s clear, everyone shares the identical ledger.
It isn’t excellent, removed from that, however it’s higher than the middle-man in conventional banks, or authorities created, violence-backed cash.