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• It is precisely those innovations which attempt to change the system of processes most deeply, that are hardest for society to accept, and therefore hardest to implement.claim0.789
• The step-by-step approach works. The all-or-nothing approach does not work. This is the secret of biological evolution.quote0.778
  Crisp conclusion from the 30-coin thought experiment, linking adaptation in buildings to evolution.
• Piecemeal modification of society along simple lines will not be powerful enough to work because the life-destroying process is too massive and thoroughly organized.hypothesis0.776
  Predicts that gradual improvement of individual processes cannot overcome the systemic resistance of the whole.
• "It is certainly very hard, and perhaps impossible, for mere humans to anticipate and rule out in advance all the disastrous ways the machine could choose to achieve a specified objective."quote0.775
  Russell's statement opening Section 2 articulating the core motivation for the Contemplative AI approach
• It is inherently impossible to make a successful building by mass production or prefabrication without possibility of modification.claim0.770
  Necessary minute adaptations cannot be achieved with standardized components.
• The entire living process is oriented by the simplicity transformation, and is pruned steadily to move towards beautiful simplicity.claim0.770
  Identifies the fifteenth transformation as the overarching aesthetic guide that shapes the process outcome.
• The larger task of making these processes genuinely morphogenetic so that they generate deeper and more coherent living structure—still lies on the horizon.claim0.769
• Progress in theory and practice requires a novel conception of 'machines as they could be,' based on the profound lessons of biology at all scales.claim0.766
  The paper's overarching constructive goal, paralleling Langton's 'life as it could be'