Runaway: Give up centralized control and build a self-organizing live system

Invited senior manager Bigtree written.

First heard of " Runaway", is two or three years ago an article said Father Zhang Xiaolong to the product manager recommended this book, I recommend the book to the celebrity is not a special cold, also did not when the matter, just left an impression on the title, the previous paragraph saw song Hong in the "Hung View" of the Internet financial video also recommended this book, Aroused my curiosity.
A 700-page book covering biology, computer science, engineering, and many other disciplines and fields, the feeling of lack of oxygen at all times, it is unclear whether this is a book on the future of human thinking, or a book of science and technology that affects humanity, or purely a philosophical book inspired by thought. Although it is not fully understood now, it has some impressions on the following aspects:

1. Swarm thinking and swarm intelligence

When bees are clustered, the ruler is not queen bee, but after the bee, it is the daughter of the Queen who is responsible for settling the colony when and where. The dozen unknown worker Bee is responsible for scouting the tree holes and wall holes where the hive is likely to be placed, and when they come back and report to the swarm with an agreed dance, the more The Scout's dance exaggerates, the better the location it advocates. Some of the leaders then checked several alternative locations based on the intensity of the dance and agreed to join the Scout dance. This leads more followers to the winning candidate spot to scout, and then comes back to join the dance of the unanimous Scout, expressing his choice. According to the law of increment of income, the more votes, the less against, gradually in a snowball way to form a big chorus, and eventually, the largest bee colony wins. This is an idiot election hall, the idiot election Idiot, the effect is extremely astonishing. This is the essence of democracy and is a thorough distributed management.
The magic of bee swarm thinking is that no bee is controlling it, but there is an invisible hand, a hand emerging from the dull member that controls the whole group. The magic of it is also that quantitative change causes qualitative change. As the number of members increases, the possible interactions between two or more members grow exponentially, resulting in dynamic characteristics of group behavior, and the into wisdom of wisdom from the group.

2. Distributed and self-organizing

Here are the four salient features of the distributed system, which are the characteristics of the live system:

• No forced center control
• The sub-unit is of an autonomous nature
• The sub-units are highly connected to each other
• The effect of point-to-point on the nonlinear causal relationship through the network

A pervasive biological principle is to not disturb a system when it is functioning properly, but to build upon it.
Distributed control must be derived from simple local control, and complex systems must be derived from existing and well-functioning simple systems.

3. Evolution and co-evolution

Evolution, as a tool, is especially useful for the following three things: how to reach the areas where you want to go without finding your way, how to reach areas you cannot imagine, and how to open up new frontiers.
The creative power of evolution is limitless, and he is able to surpass human design. Within 10 cycles, Sims ' artificial reproduction can create something "interesting". It's often just five jumps to get Sims somewhere and get a much better picture than a random doodle. Random selection and non-purposeful roaming must not produce coherent designs, and cumulative choices can be made.
In order for Darwin to evolve, organisms must first live many generations in this environment without benefiting from genetic changes. Therefore, it is the adaptability of the body that allows the population to continue to the day the mutant appears and to modify its genes.
Co-evolution is the evolutionary evolution of inter-species interactions, adapting to the environment to meet each other's needs and form symbiotic relationships. The parties in a symbiotic relationship do not have to be symmetrical or equal, but in general the parties are beneficiaries. Co-evolution is a variety of forms of learning, and the parties are learning from each other while also imparting to each other. In a world of co-evolution, control and secrecy can only be counterproductive, and openness is better than masking.
In the prisoner's dilemma game, if only play once, betray the opponent is the most reasonable choice. But when the game repeated repeatedly, "a newspaper," the reciprocating strategy to win, it cooperation in return to cooperate to betray the return of betrayal, often produce a round of cooperation cycle.

"Popping up" is the jargon of sea-fish enthusiasts to describe a new fish tank that suddenly stabilizes after a long tortuous period of instability. All complex co-evolutionary systems need to "pop up".

Artificial evolution is the end of engineering hegemony. Evolution allows us to transcend our own planning abilities; evolution can carve out what we can't do; evolution can be more perfect; evolution can take care of the world we can't care for.

4. Control and Runaway

General principles of Cybernetics: If all variables are closely related, and if you really have the maximum control over one of them, then you can indirectly control all other variables. This principle is based on the integrity of the system.
For any complex, dangerousProject, the most ideal team size is eight people. More than eight people can cause slow and delayed decision-making, while fewer than eight people can become a serious impediment to sudden events or negligence. Stability is ensured by diversity.
The ant represents both the history of the social organization and the future of the computer. A single ant's lifelong learning can indirectly become a part of the entire ant colony's information heritage, and the ant individual learns the knowledge it is able to transmit effectively to its own group.
The real world is a world full of contingencies, a world of ever-changing worlds, and the need for a vague, relaxed, more adaptable and less precise attitude to survive in this world. In the face of great change, "right" will be replaced by "survivability".
Give up control, we will artificially evolve a new world and the dream of wealth. Let go, it will bear fruit.
The future of control is: partnership, collaborative control, man-machine hybrid control. All this means that the creator must share control with his control, and have a common destiny with the breath.

The out of control does not mean that it is out of hand, but that it is necessary to voluntarily abandon the traditional centralized control of human society and organization, introduce the idea of biotechnology and evolution, and make society or organization into a self-organizing living system. From the point of view of organizational behavior, the main content of the book is re-examined, and it is very exciting and inspiring.In addition, there is a feeling in the process of reading this book that many of the phenomena described in the book are very philosophical. Like the fax machine effect: Every fax machine in the world, the more valuable the fax machine in each person's hand. If you only have a fax machine, it's rubbish. As for the repetition of the Prisoner dilemma game analysis.
The Book of Network economics, cyber security, e-money, and so the description is very visionary, although not much, but think of this is the book written in 95, has successfully predicted the next 20 years of trend, it is clear that KK is a insightful person.

Runaway: Give up centralized control and build a self-organizing live system