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hopefully on the great ocean, as that place enforces minimalism and simple pleasures. I'd prefer Skynet make it quick, and simply lob a missile at my floating domicile while I'm resting up for the next watch lulled to sleep by the waves and wind. Aloha mateys! <shaka!> :) ... you and your sea lust ...

I think the model for the 20th century was physics and the model for the 21st is math. Here is an excerpt from von Nuemann's "The Mathematician" At any rate, the problems of theoretical physics are objectively given; and, while the criteria which govern the exploitation of a success are, as I indica...

This thread exists solely as an ode to the two greatest men to grace the world of tech in recent times who coincidentally had a startup together: Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, in that order and Satoshi whoever that may be.

T minus 5 years, conservatively, till Radiologists and Pathologists lose their jobs.

Effective complexity is a simple and elegant measure of complexity. Every physical system has associated with it a quantity of information -- the amount required to describe the physical state of the system to the accuracy allowed by quantum mechanics. The basic way to measure somethings effective ...

Ran in to some more information in the neighborhood of these wacky ideas from "Programming the Universe" by Seth Lloyd. Thus, at bottom, the universe can be thought of as performing a quantum computation. Likewise, because the behavior of elementary particles can be mapped directly onto the behavior...

This is such a complex issue. In the main this narrative that Mueller and the left are trying to advance that Russia "swayed" the election is just garbage. To make a case that they had a meaningful impact is pretty far fetched and can never be substantially supported which may be in part why they ar...

Intelligence is essentially an information system. The more efficiently and effectively a process (be it human or artificial) utilizes information the "smarter" it is said to be. The side in WWIII that is smarter will win. Evolution itself is an information maximization algorithm. GD implies the ide...

I mean just thinking about it if there is one thing that communists know and understand well it is brute force. I get the sense that America has a much greater strategic advantage by avoiding resorting to force. My guess though is that china would probably prefer America does because it brings Ameri...

I keep forgetting to post this: I can recall at some point before discovering GD (if memory serves me correct) watching an interview of Marc Andreessen where he said there is a theory out there where (paraphrasing) "wars start when the last people who experience them die off". Thought that was inter...