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https://x.com/michael_nielsen/status/1812968762729242903?s=46&t=QiZu_7RbzbjKl7eMyW7XRA

It's interesting to consider analogies to this, where bringing some new form of a thing into existence, previous forms become infeasible...

It's interesting to consider analogies to this, where bringing some new form of a thing into existence, previous forms become infeasible...

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This feels evident to me why does this surprise?

The only problem is externality pricing.

Building https://negationgame.com

Ok, but seriously, it feels to me similar to as if you always tired a reef knot, and then one day your neighbour came up with a sheet bend (similar but different), and then somehow suddenly everytime you tried to tie a reef knot you somehow got a sheet bend.

But we know that different contexts permit different dynamics, and that dynamics modify contexts.

Famous example is aerobic respiration in cells

OK, @nor. Your aerobic example makes me think this is why people are surprised.

Sounds to me like the phenomenon is not surprising to you because you were already aware of it, but it is surprising to others because they were not. 

Also you’re surprised that others are surprised because you thought it was common knowledge.

Also I’m surprised by your surprise because what you thought was common knowledge was not just novel, but also surprising to me and many others.

Maybe I’m not understanding it well enough. 

It’s just saying that there are some crystals which once created are so contaminatory that you can’t make previous crystal structures, right?

Isn’t something also true for like background radiation and other kinds of pollution? Trying to understand why surprising

Were living things non-living things, before existing as living things?

Where would the birth of life be located on the diagram?