persistence doesn’t always imply improvement, but persistent growth does. persistent growth is more akin to reproduction but excluded from traditional evolutionary analysis. for example when a company, nation, person, or forest grows.
when, for example, a system like a startup grows, random mutations to system parts can cause improvement if there are at least some positive mutations. even if there are tons of bad mutations, the system can remain alive and even improve. eg a bad change to one of the company’s product causes the company’s product to die but if the company’s big/grown enough its other businesses will continue and maybe even improve by learning from one of its product’s deaths.
the swiss example i think is a good example of a system which persists without much growth. agreed that in this kind of case, mutations are bad.
persistence doesn’t always imply improvement, but persistent growth does. persistent growth is more akin to reproduction but excluded from traditional evolutionary analysis. for example when a company, nation, person, or forest grows.
when, for example, a system like a startup grows, random mutations to system parts can cause improvement if there are at least some positive mutations. even if there are tons of bad mutations, the system can remain alive and even improve. eg a bad change to one of the company’s product causes the company’s product to die but if the company’s big/grown enough its other businesses will continue and maybe even improve by learning from one of its product’s deaths.
the swiss example i think is a good example of a system which persists without much growth. agreed that in this kind of case, mutations are bad.