Kenneth Stanley's and Joel Lehman's book Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective has two components: theoretical, describing something about the reality, and ethical (practical, political), prescribing what people and other agents
"there should always be paths only through the stepping stones that satisfy a certain (reasonable) limitation or constraint"
Sounds like wishful thinking and a fragile position.
What if there's no such a path and not following an "unsuitable" path (one, that doesn't satisfy a certain (reasonable) limitation or constraint) is posing an existential risk itself?
As we can not predict consequences in a complex system in the long run, I cannot see how one can evaluate a "reasonability" of constraints beyond open-endness principles.
Review of "Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned" by Stanley and Lehman
"there should always be paths only through the stepping stones that satisfy a certain (reasonable) limitation or constraint"
Sounds like wishful thinking and a fragile position.
What if there's no such a path and not following an "unsuitable" path (one, that doesn't satisfy a certain (reasonable) limitation or constraint) is posing an existential risk itself?
As we can not predict consequences in a complex system in the long run, I cannot see how one can evaluate a "reasonability" of constraints beyond open-endness principles.