value created by the cliff/climber system as a whole. So the overall alignment of the system determines the climb: not any single variable like blefuscity. Our previous ideas about blefuscity reveal themselves as “true, but partial”. So we have added a term, alignment, to describe the system as a whole. Let’s expand that term: How much can you adjust the different variables so as to increase their alignment? We are now introducing an invented meta-systematic term: alignability. The cliff/climber system has low alignability (a property of the system): It is difficult—or it has high cost—to
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