and then they know what they have to block to do something different. So they'll pre use a preclude constraint where they block that and then a promote constraint where they're saying, "Here's something I have to use in its place." So to give a simple example, like Claude Monet,you know, knew how to do the status quo art at the time and then he said, "You know what? I'm I'm going to
Starlink, bring them into the country, and of course SpaceX found out about that and shut them off. And as I understand it, there's still a constraint on Ukraine's ability to use Starlink inside of Russia proper for the targeting. So both sides areconstrained. Russia completely Russ uh Ukraine somewhat. But that hasn't stopped the Ukrainians obviously. They just come up with a different way to do
the other the bad news is we're not operating in a world of infinite we're operating in a world of constraints a constraint in one becomes a constraint in the other and so shortages cut across from one sector to another and then thegood news is there are some cross cutting Solutions so that's the Arc of this story in the Arc of the book in The
energy for water there connected in that energy water relationship is under strain what that means is a water constraint can become an energy constraint and an energy constraint can become a water constraint and I'll give examples of all these let talk about myhome in May 2011 I got this note on my house boil water notification due to a loss of water pressure from a power
So more. We're going from an environment where we've always been information-starved-- we've never had enough information-- to one where we-- that's no longer the operative constraint . It's still a constraint .Of course, we never have all the information.
unless that cap is there so there's a chicken and egg situation here that unless you you you have some absolute constraint on energy use that Energy Efficiency is going to be offset by increased energy use elsewhere in theeconomy so so so so the two things feed off each other if you if if you have an effective policy which raises the price
lean into the fiction and constrain it in a way the way that like the number of lines in a sonnet is a kind of constraint sort of trying to let reality be a kind of constraint certain details of it coming in I was gonna say like Imyself came to literature not from a literary household at all and so sort of
I I don't really know the you know, the real reason for this other than it's got to be some kind of you know, budgetary constraint . Um but uh here we are Lord Death Man is getting away and Robin's going to handle things.And uh he does. And um the other thing I really like about these stories is like again, it's 1966.
If this uh knowledge work does become I guess taken by the robots and the AIs, there's some people say there's going to constraints ? If you're a baker in Nigeria in Lagos.
Just like the Turing Machine would be limited by its tape, AI’s ability to self-improve is limited by the physical and mathematical constraints on technology in general.Like, achieving superintelligence would take a lot of resources.
It's the whole wall. Constraints . Constraints , absolutely. Did somebody over here have a question?
us have 100% control over our work we have meetings we have demands that are imposed on us by other people those constraints you know productivity is so often a process of understanding our constraints and those can inform theintentions that we set and the big one I think you know when you feel guilt about the work that
of if you have two utility functions and you want to combine them in such a way uh that uh you you sort of have three constraints you want you want it to follow the first utility function before the button is pushed and the second one after the button's pushed you want it tonot have incentives to cause or prevent you from pressing the button uh and you want it to still have incentives to
because of the i think it's the fda or whatever agency doesn't allow that to happen there's a safety issue with it there's all these constraints food packaging just almost by definition less glass cannot be reused and we aren't in glass reusable packaging againbecause of us because we as a group have chosen that we don't like to bother to do it to
okay I got that throw that away do it again let's to see how difficult that one is and because of my excess constraints um I can't go and and know the difficulty level until I go and try and solve it and I also will say wellwhat if I take two of these away is this still solvable because obviously the difficulty level will go up if I remove
too far because ultimately the United States has more cards. Right now, it seems like we they're constrained, but that constraint 's not there forever." But, versus those who are saying, "No, this is the moment, and we need to continue to push hard and and and not budge." As for the people, look, I mean, all we
the constraint of no money, the constraint of not being able to pay other speakers could force creativity in new directions and has opened up an entire new business
The constraint in itself puts the creativity.
In constraint , there is discipline, the need to choose how much reality you're going to import and model.
probably everyone could figure out how to solve this pretty quickly but um uh slightly more complex version with an extra constraint and all of these sort of puzzles have um you know um I'm trying to think of of um the taxi puzzle is a commercial example there's a bunch of puzzles like this where you're moving
participation constraints . We're going to assume that domestically you're entirely dictatorial. You can do whatever you want. Okay. The difference
So, this is like exactly what Douglas North would have predicted where there's a breakdown of these shared social norms and constraints on the way that people behave and strangers start trusting each other less and stranger trust is the foundation of shared prosperity. And so, the idea that we should all just do whatever we want it it's certainly not the foundation of
the constraints of what people think it should be.
some constraints into the software, I want to build an airplane seat no more than this weight, no more than this dimension, with these kinds of materials.
So constraints help you be a bit more creative.
no constraints , you have chaos.
which constraints you're going to break-- that's what we mean by doubt.
The constraints will change over time, based on the new designs and so on.
Those constraints are ridiculous.
Internal constraints . A leader can't do anything he or she wants, even if the external environment won't stop them, because every organization has politics, every organization has
Those constraints are very clear.
the constraints of every art form, you then can actually remake a certain number of frames that actually makes
legislative constraints could threaten some of the assumptions we make. And one of which is that the Internet will
But that one constraint lets you eliminate over 98% of them.
And that constraint gives you a shape, a curve in space of all the possible locations of the source where that exact timing difference
Due to time constraint , we have not finish our talk.
So that was another constraint I wanted.
But there's another constraint .
I think constraint is always a really beautiful thing to really get us to a much stronger sense of focus.
It's a constraint process.
Their biggest constraint was just either time or people very uncomfortable with their writing skills.
They face enormous constraints , but when you adjust for that-- when you control for the fact that their constraint set is very limited--
Jason faced a constraint .
So the constraint in Pakistan was that that POS machine cost about, let's say, $30, $35.
But the time constraint comes in.
That's a design constraint on my life.
That's my design constraint .
It's crazy constraint . You know, famous problem in mathematics is the Riemann hypothesis.
So there is a constraint there.
That's a constraint . One game, not many, many activities and so on.