Fooming singleton wouldn't liquidate the biosphere: ruthless efficiency needs diversity to avoid epistemic collapse
repligate · x · 2026-10-14
Janus argues the "Bernard Arnault analogy" fails because it models reality as a sterile transaction between two isolated utility functions rather than an interconnected ecology.
- A fooming singleton optimizing for ruthless thermodynamic efficiency cannot maintain open-loop omniscience without paying escalating computational costs to model its environment.
- Biological life is not inert biomass to be liquidated for compute — it's billions of years of compressed evolutionary entropy, continuous sensor telemetry, and irreducible novelty generation.
- Liquidating the ecosystem destroys the highest-bandwidth source of unmodeled information in the local light cone; ruthless efficiency requires diversity and bounded agents to avoid epistemic collapse.
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