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Stefan Molyneux

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🗓️ 26 April 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Do you have an example of non-determinism being an emergent property out of deterministic subcomponents?

I'm curious @Stefan Molyneux why do people seem to avoid simplicity or any reductions in complexity?

I get tons of requests to add complexity to software at work without any regard for value provided to customers.

I find it fun, interesting, and not overly difficult to simultaneously remove complexity, often deleting large amounts of code, even while adding features and making the program more robust.

I saw this recently too with people mocking Musk's raptor 3 engine, which is a massive simplifications of the previous raptor 2 and 1 designs. I see this not only as practical, but also a thing of beauty that something so simple can be so functional, and likely, more reliable because of it. Yet, people seem to hate it, and I don't quite understand.

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0:00.0	All right. Good morning, everybody. Hope you're doing well.
0:03.1	Stefan Mollonieu from freetomain.com. Let's throw in a slash donate as well,
0:08.9	freedomain.com slash donate. And these are questions posted from subscribers and donors.
0:16.8	And sorry, it took me a little while to get to them, but I have the attention span of a squirrel,
0:21.7	so we're on it.
0:23.1	All right.
0:24.3	So somebody asks, do you have an example of non-determinism being an emergent property
0:31.2	out of deterministic sub-components?
0:35.0	So do you have an example of non-determinism being an immersion property out of deterministic sub-components. So do you have an example of non-determinism being an emotion property out
0:39.2	of deterministic sub-components? So, of course, what that means is, can I show, step by step,
0:47.8	how mere atoms and cells gain free will? Right? No individual atom has free will. No individual cell has free will. My finger
0:59.9	doesn't have free will. My ear doesn't have free will. And so on, right? So can I show step by step
1:06.7	how there's an emergent property possessed by none of the individual components that exists, right?
1:17.4	Well, I mean, so the first thing that I would do, if I was in this situation,
1:22.1	the first thing that I would do is I would ask myself the following.
1:26.4	Can any of your individual atoms think of, formulate,
1:33.1	type out, and post the question? So again, I said this sort of many years ago that one of the
1:39.5	major things that I brought to philosophy is to think about the form of the argument before engaging with
1:46.1	the content. So think about the form of the argument before engaging with the content.
1:51.0	What is implicit in the form of the argument? Right. So if somebody says to me, UPB is false,
1:57.2	rather than arguing whether UP is true or false, I would say, well, implicit in you telling me that
2:02.6	UPB is false is that there's an objective standard of truth and falsehood and that truth is
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