Sublime

Ridgeline was closed a large part of the time to new investors, and current partners were often restricted from adding capital. To maintain higher returns, we sometimes even reduced our size by returning capital to partners.

Bernardo Huberman's research group at Hewlett-Packard developed a scheme that first asked each person to bet on what everyone else was going to say.`° This "common knowledge" was then discounted, since it was obviously being counted more than once.

That risk was magnified by the nature of the Manhattan Project’s participants. The single most important secret in the United States was left in the hands of people whom the national elite were not particularly inclined to trust: academics who had flirted with the far left, assorted European refugees whose allegiances were unclear, and pure oddball

We can, and some of us do, celebrate and encourage self-organization, disorder, variety, and diversity. Some of us even make a moral code of doing so, as Aldo Leopold did with his land ethic: “A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”

In order to make the case for evolution by natural selection, it was essential to establish that there was sufficient within-species heritable variability:

The brain of man conserves programming space by being reluctant to change, which is a form of inconsistency avoidance.