Keltham, who is definitely interpreting 'a few logistical difficulties' as some mix of 'men mastering the partial ejaculation technique' if they're doing it the fun way, and otherwise 'divide up the sperm quickly so it's still healthy during the mass insemination process', continues.

"One reason I'm giving you this caution, obviously, is so that, if you do start getting results from more directed and clever heritage-optimization, you don't push your luck; the disease counterattack is close to a universal hazard if you start deriving too many children from too few parents."

"The larger point is that variation, itself, is a kind of resource.  It doesn't just apply to diversity of disease-fighting systems, although that sure is one of the clearest cases of it.  If you're tackling a difficult mental problem, and you've got five people on your team, adding a sixth person who thinks in a different way from the first five people is often a larger boost than adding somebody's previous acquaintance from a previous job who had a lot of similar life experience.  There are also benefits to people knowing each other, to be clear, but the longer you've hammered on a problem without solving it, the more likely it is that you need somebody new."

"This ties into something that, in dath ilan, is seen as a central dichotomy of all life's existence - a dichotomy between -"  He needs to be careful in speaking here, so that the direct spell-supplied translation from the dath ilani terms into Taldane doesn't give away his point too early.  "- diversity, and optimality.  After all, if there's a best way to do things, wouldn't doing any different way, necessarily be doing it worse?"

"Think about the logic I showed you earlier today, the one which can derive exactly all of the actual consequences of the premises and no non-consequences of the premises.  If you had a logic that was meaningfully different from that one, wouldn't it have to be, in some sense, worse?"

"As a question to ponder and answer, then, is diversity only ever valuable in places which we haven't found the best answer?  Is there necessarily, can we deduce it in advance of seeing it, some optimal disease-fighting system an organism could have, which could fight off every different form of disease that exists, and if an organism had that, it could be duplicated a million times without worry?"

Keltham, who is definitely interpreting 'a few logistical difficulties' as some mix of 'men mastering the partial ejaculation technique' if they're doing it the fun way, and otherwise 'divide up the sperm quickly so it's still healthy during the mass insemination process', continues.

"One reason I'm giving you this caution, obviously, is so that, if you do start getting results from more directed and clever heritage-optimization, you don't push your luck; the disease counterattack is close to a universal hazard if you start deriving too many children from too few parents."

"The larger point is that variation, itself, is a kind of resource.  It doesn't just apply to diversity of disease-fighting systems, although that sure is one of the clearest cases of it.  If you're tackling a difficult mental problem, and you've got five people on your team, adding a sixth person who thinks in a different way from the first five people is often a larger boost than adding somebody's previous acquaintance from a previous job who had a lot of similar life experience.  There are also benefits to people knowing each other, to be clear, but the longer you've hammered on a problem without solving it, the more likely it is that you need somebody new."

"This ties into something that, in dath ilan, is seen as a central dichotomy of all life's existence - a dichotomy between -"  He needs to be careful in speaking here, so that the direct spell-supplied translation from the dath ilani terms into Taldane doesn't give away his point too early.  "- diversity, and optimality.  After all, if there's a best way to do things, wouldn't doing any different way, necessarily be doing it worse?"

"Think about the logic I showed you earlier today, the one which can derive exactly all of the actual consequences of the premises and no non-consequences of the premises.  If you had a logic that was meaningfully different from that one, wouldn't it have to be, in some sense, worse?"

"I pose to you this question, then, which I have not yet told you how to answer:  Is diversity only ever valuable in places which we haven't found the best strategy?  Is there necessarily some optimal disease-fighting system an organism could have, which could fight off every different form of disease that exists, and if an organism had that, it could be duplicated a million times without worry?"

Keltham, who is definitely interpreting 'a few logistical difficulties' as some mix of 'men mastering the partial ejaculation technique' if they're doing it the fun way, and otherwise 'divide up the sperm quickly so it's still healthy during the mass insemination process', continues.

"One reason I'm giving you this caution, obviously, is so that, if you do start getting results from more directed and clever heritage-optimization, you don't push your luck; the disease counterattack is close to a universal hazard if you start deriving too many children from too few parents."

"The larger point is that variation, itself, is a kind of resource.  It doesn't just apply to diversity of disease-fighting systems, although that sure is one of the clearest cases of it.  If you're tackling a difficult mental problem, and you've got five people on your team, adding a sixth person who thinks in a different way from the first five people is often a larger boost than adding somebody's previous acquaintance from a previous job who had a lot of similar life experience.  There are also benefits to people knowing each other, to be clear, but the longer you've hammered on a problem without solving it, the more likely it is that you need somebody new."

"This ties into something that, in dath ilan, is seen as a central dichotomy of all life's existence - a dichotomy between -"  He needs to be careful in speaking here, so that the direct spell-supplied translation from the dath ilani terms into Taldane doesn't give away his point too early.  "- diversity, and optimality.  After all, if there's a best way to do things, wouldn't doing any different way, necessarily be doing it worse?"

"Think about the logic I showed you earlier today, the one which can derive exactly all of the actual consequences of the premises and no non-consequences of the premises.  If you had a logic that was meaningfully different from that one, wouldn't it have to be, in some sense, worse?"

"I pose to you this question, then, which I have not yet told you how to answer:  Is diversity only ever valuable in places where we haven't found the best strategy?  Is there necessarily some optimal disease-fighting system an organism could have, which could fight off every different form of disease that exists, and if an organism had that, it could be duplicated a million times without worry?"

Keltham, who is definitely interpreting 'a few logistical difficulties' as some mix of 'men mastering the partial ejaculation technique' if they're doing it the fun way, and otherwise 'divide up the sperm quickly so it's still healthy during the mass insemination process', continues.

"One reason I'm giving you this caution, obviously, is so that, if you do start getting results from more directed and clever heritage-optimization, you don't push your luck; the disease counterattack is close to a universal hazard if you start deriving too many children from too few parents."

"The larger point is that variation, itself, is a kind of resource.  It doesn't just apply to diversity of disease-fighting systems, although that sure is one of the clearest cases of it.  If you're tackling a difficult mental problem, and you've got five people on your team, adding a sixth person who thinks in a different way from the first five people is often a larger boost than adding somebody's previous acquaintance from a previous job who had a lot of similar life experience.  There are also benefits to people knowing each other, to be clear, but the longer you've hammered on a problem without solving it, the more likely it is that you need somebody new."

"This ties into something that, in dath ilan, is seen as a central dichotomy of all life's existence - a dichotomy between -"  He needs to be careful in speaking here, so that the direct spell-supplied translation from the dath ilani terms into Taldane doesn't give away his point too early.  "- diversity, and optimality.  After all, if there's a best way to do things, wouldn't doing it any different way, necessarily be doing it worse?"

"Think about the logic I showed you earlier today, the one which can derive exactly all of the actual consequences of the premises and no non-consequences of the premises.  If you had a logic that was meaningfully different from that one, wouldn't it have to be, in some sense, worse?"

"I pose to you this question, then, which I have not yet told you how to answer:  Is diversity only ever valuable in places where we haven't found the best strategy?  Is there necessarily some optimal disease-fighting system an organism could have, which could fight off every different form of disease that exists, and if an organism had that, it could be duplicated a million times without worry?"

Keltham, who is definitely interpreting 'a few logistical difficulties' as some mix of 'men mastering the partial ejaculation technique' if they're doing it the fun way, and otherwise 'divide up the sperm quickly so it's still healthy during the mass insemination process', continues.

"One reason I'm giving you this caution, obviously, is so that, if you do start getting results from more directed and clever heritage-optimization, you don't push your luck; the disease counterattack is close to a universal hazard if you start deriving too many children from too few parents."

"The larger point is that variation, itself, is a kind of resource.  It doesn't just apply to diversity of disease-fighting systems, although that sure is one of the clearest cases of it.  If you're tackling a difficult mental problem, and you've got five people on your team, adding a sixth person who thinks in a different way from the first five people is often a larger boost than adding somebody's previous acquaintance from a previous job who had a lot of similar life experience.  There are also benefits to people knowing each other, to be clear, but the longer you've hammered on a problem without solving it, the more likely it is that you need somebody new.  The variation of your crops is a kind of resource that species has for making sure that at least some of it survives when it gets challenged with a new kind of weather, a new kind of pest."

"This ties into something that, in dath ilan, is seen as a central dichotomy of all life's existence - a dichotomy between -"  He needs to be careful in speaking here, so that the direct spell-supplied translation from the dath ilani terms into Taldane doesn't give away his point too early.  "- diversity, and optimality.  After all, if there's a best way to do things, wouldn't doing it any different way, necessarily be doing it worse?"

"Think about the logic I showed you earlier today, the one which can derive exactly all of the actual consequences of the premises and no non-consequences of the premises.  If you had a logic that was meaningfully different from that one, wouldn't it have to be, in some sense, worse?"

"I pose to you this question, then, which I have not yet told you how to answer:  Is diversity only ever valuable in places where we haven't found the best strategy?  Is there necessarily some optimal disease-fighting system an organism could have, which could fight off every different form of disease that exists, and if an organism had that, it could be duplicated a million times without worry?"

Keltham, who is definitely interpreting 'a few logistical difficulties' as some mix of 'men mastering the partial ejaculation technique' if they're doing it the fun way, and otherwise 'divide up the sperm quickly so it's still healthy during the mass insemination process', continues.

"One reason I'm giving you this caution, obviously, is so that, if you do start getting results from more directed and clever heritage-optimization, you don't push your luck; the disease counterattack is close to a universal hazard if you start deriving too many children from too few parents."

"The larger point is that variation, itself, is a kind of resource.  It doesn't just apply to diversity of disease-fighting systems, although that sure is one of the clearest cases of it.  If you're tackling a difficult mental problem, and you've got five people on your team, adding a sixth person who thinks in a different way from the first five people is often a larger boost than adding somebody's previous acquaintance from a previous job who had a lot of similar life experience.  There are also benefits to people knowing each other, to be clear, but the longer you've hammered on a problem without solving it, the more likely it is that you need somebody new.  The variation of your crops is a kind of resource that species has for making sure that at least some of it survives when it gets challenged with a new kind of weather, a new kind of pest - and when you breed it hard through narrow bottlenecks of parentage, you tighten that variation and make the crop probably less resilient in some dimensions, even if you're improving it in others.  Variation is a kind of resource for heritage optimization, and the process of heritage optimization can itself use it up."

"This ties into something that, in dath ilan, is seen as a central dichotomy of all life's existence - a dichotomy between -"  He needs to be careful in speaking here, so that the direct spell-supplied translation from the dath ilani terms into Taldane doesn't give away his point too early.  "- diversity, and optimality.  After all, if there's a best way to do things, wouldn't doing it any different way, necessarily be doing it worse?"

"Think about the logic I showed you earlier today, the one which can derive exactly all of the actual consequences of the premises and no non-consequences of the premises.  If you had a logic that was meaningfully different from that one, wouldn't it have to be, in some sense, worse?"

"I pose to you this question, then, which I have not yet told you how to answer:  Is diversity only ever valuable in places where we haven't found the best strategy?  Is there necessarily some optimal disease-fighting system an organism could have, which could fight off every different form of disease that exists, and if an organism had that, it could be duplicated a million times without worry?"

Keltham, who is definitely interpreting 'a few logistical difficulties' as some mix of 'men mastering the partial ejaculation technique' if they're doing it the fun way, and otherwise 'divide up the sperm quickly so it's still healthy during the mass insemination process', continues.

"One reason I'm giving you this caution, obviously, is so that, if you do start getting results from more directed and clever heritage-optimization, you don't push your luck; the disease counterattack is close to a universal hazard if you start deriving too many children from too few parents."

"The larger point is that variation, itself, is a kind of resource.  It doesn't just apply to diversity of disease-fighting systems, although that sure is one of the clearest cases of it.  If you're tackling a difficult mental problem, and you've got five people on your team, adding a sixth person who thinks in a different way from the first five people is often a larger boost than adding somebody's previous acquaintance from a previous job who had a lot of similar life experience.  There are also benefits to people knowing each other, to be clear, but the longer you've hammered on a problem without solving it, the more likely it is that you need somebody new.  The variation of your crops is a kind of resource that species has for making sure that at least some of it survives when it gets challenged with a new kind of weather, a new kind of pest - and when you breed it hard through narrow bottlenecks of parentage, you tighten that variation and make the crop probably less resilient in some dimensions, even if you're improving it in others.  Variation is a kind of resource for heritage optimization, and the process of heritage optimization uses some of it up."

"This ties into something that, in dath ilan, is seen as a central dichotomy of all life's existence - a dichotomy between -"  He needs to be careful in speaking here, so that the direct spell-supplied translation from the dath ilani terms into Taldane doesn't give away his point too early.  "- diversity, and optimality.  After all, if there's a best way to do things, wouldn't doing it any different way, necessarily be doing it worse?"

"Think about the logic I showed you earlier today, the one which can derive exactly all of the actual consequences of the premises and no non-consequences of the premises.  If you had a logic that was meaningfully different from that one, wouldn't it have to be, in some sense, worse?"

"I pose to you this question, then, which I have not yet told you how to answer:  Is diversity only ever valuable in places where we haven't found the best strategy?  Is there necessarily some optimal disease-fighting system an organism could have, which could fight off every different form of disease that exists, and if an organism had that, it could be duplicated a million times without worry?"

Keltham, who is definitely interpreting 'a few logistical difficulties' as some mix of 'men mastering the partial ejaculation technique' if they're doing it the fun way, and otherwise 'divide up the sperm quickly so it's still healthy during the mass insemination process', continues.

"One reason I'm giving you this caution, obviously, is so that, if you do start getting results from more directed and clever heritage-optimization, you don't push your luck; the disease counterattack is close to a universal hazard if you start deriving too many children from too few parents."

"The larger point is that variation, itself, is a kind of resource.  It doesn't just apply to diversity of disease-fighting systems, although that sure is one of the clearest cases of it.  If you're tackling a difficult mental problem, and you've got five people on your team, adding a sixth person who thinks in a different way from the first five people is often a larger boost than adding somebody's previous acquaintance from a previous job who had a lot of similar life experience.  There are also benefits to people knowing each other, to be clear, but the longer you've hammered on a problem without solving it, the more likely it is that you need somebody new."

"The variation of your crops is a kind of resource that species has for making sure that at least some of it survives when it gets challenged with a new kind of weather, a new kind of pest.  When you apply powerful breeding pressures to a crop and squeeze it through narrow bottlenecks of parentage, you lessen that variation as a side effect, and make the crop probably less resilient in some dimensions, even if you're improving it in others.  Variation is a kind of resource for heritage optimization, and the process of heritage optimization uses some of it up."

"This ties into something that, in dath ilan, is seen as a central dichotomy of all life's existence - a dichotomy between -"  He needs to be careful in speaking here, so that the direct spell-supplied translation from the dath ilani terms into Taldane doesn't give away his point too early.  "- diversity, and optimality.  After all, if there's a best way to do things, wouldn't doing it any different way, necessarily be doing it worse?"

"Think about the logic I showed you earlier today, the one which can derive exactly all of the actual consequences of the premises and no non-consequences of the premises.  If you had a logic that was meaningfully different from that one, wouldn't it have to be, in some sense, worse?"

"I pose to you this question, then, which I have not yet told you how to answer:  Is diversity only ever valuable in places where we haven't found the best strategy?  Is there necessarily some optimal disease-fighting system an organism could have, which could fight off every different form of disease that exists, and if an organism had that, it could be duplicated a million times without worry?"

Keltham, who is definitely interpreting 'a few logistical difficulties' as some mix of 'men mastering the partial ejaculation technique' if they're doing it the fun way, and otherwise 'divide up the sperm quickly so it's still healthy during the mass insemination process', continues.

"One reason I'm giving you this caution, obviously, is so that, if you do start getting results from more directed and clever heritage-optimization, you don't push your luck; the disease counterattack is close to a universal hazard if you start deriving too many children from too few parents."

"The larger point is that variation, itself, is a kind of resource.  It doesn't just apply to variation of disease-fighting systems, although that sure is one of the clearest cases of it.  If you're tackling a difficult mental problem, and you've got five people on your team, adding a sixth person who thinks in a different way from the first five people is often a larger boost than adding somebody's previous acquaintance from a previous job who had a lot of similar life experience.  There are also benefits to people knowing each other, to be clear, but the longer you've hammered on a problem without solving it, the more likely it is that you need somebody new."

"The variation of your crops is a kind of resource that plant species has, making it more likely that at least some of it survives when it gets challenged with a new kind of weather, a new kind of pest.  When you apply powerful breeding pressures to a crop and squeeze it through narrow bottlenecks of parentage, you lessen that variation as a side effect, and make the crop probably less resilient in some dimensions, even if you're improving it in others.  Variation is a kind of resource for heritage optimization, and the process of heritage optimization uses some of it up."

"This ties into something that, in dath ilan, is seen as a central dichotomy of all life's existence - a dichotomy between -"  He needs to be careful in speaking here, so that the direct spell-supplied translation from the dath ilani terms into Taldane doesn't give away his point too early.  "- diversity, and optimality.  After all, if there's a best way to do things, wouldn't doing it any different way, necessarily be doing it worse?"

"Think about the logic I showed you earlier today, the one which can derive exactly all of the actual consequences of the premises and no non-consequences of the premises.  If you had a logic that was meaningfully different from that one, wouldn't it have to be, in some sense, worse?"

"I pose to you this question, then, which I have not yet told you how to answer:  Is diversity only ever valuable in places where we haven't found the best strategy?  Is there necessarily some optimal disease-fighting system an organism could have, which could fight off every different form of disease that exists, and if an organism had that, it could be duplicated a million times without worry?"