Entropy, Compound and Game Theory

20250106 - Farewell to humanity's childhood One instance I remember to have heard, where the person was to be brought home to possess a good Estate,; but finding some care necessary to keep it together, he relinquished it to a younger brother, reserving to himself nothing but a gun and match-Coat, with which he took his way again to the Wilderness. p20 What is real value to us? 20250111 - Wicked liberty The idea of competitive exams for government job applicants may come from China. The idea of "liberty, equality, fraternity" may come from indigenous American. This idea is weird, but possible. Europen thinkers normally say that their ideas came from Ancient Greece and Ancient Roman, but it seems that they didn't have "competitive exams" or "equality" until European visited China and Americas. Should we all embrace "baseline communism"? p47 It's actually individualism with basic support from government. The problem is, what should the ...

1st reading:   https://chaojidigua.blogspot.com/2019/03/20180512-20171003-20180512-sapiens.html 2nd reading. Part One. The Cognitive Revolution 20241203 - 1. An Animal of No Significance Big brain is big burden. It's not that useful for individuals. But it's critical for large scale cooperation. 20241204 - 2. The Tree of Knowledge It's all about collative stories. Advertisements, money, juricial system, state, and even PUA. When "The Power of Now" says live in the present, does that help us not getting affected by those imagined stories? If we can choose not to accept those stories, can we avoid the negative side of them? What's the relationship between stories and game theory(and compound effect)? 20241206 - 3. A Day in the Life of Adam and Eve Ever since the Cognitive Revolution, there hasn’t been a single natural way of life for Sapiens. There are only cultural choices, from among a bewildering palette of possibilities. p53 This could be the meaning of live...

20250123 - 1. Introduction Natural selection is essentially the outcome of three common phenomena: variation(多样化), heritability(遗传), and differential reproductive success(变异). Put crudely, adaptations evolve most strongly when the going gets tough. p12 Life went easy in the past 70 years, globally. Most people forgot how cruel nature is. Mr Lieberman missed the Transition Eight: The Intelligence Revolution.(p20) What would happen when AI take away most of the jobs? Will next generation lie down and play computer games all day long? Part I: Apes and Humans 20250125 - 2: Upstanding Apes Natural selection acts most strongly not during times of plenty, but during times of stress and scarcity. p40 What would happen if AI give us permanent abundance? How important is it to walk longer distance and to free up our hands while walking? We can carry goods over long distance. Compare this to lions. The adult lions have to bring cubs and pregnant female lions to the hunting place to eat! ...

20250114 - Monday Hot springs postponed Argumentum ad opulentium Walls of sausages Keynes’s prediction New needs and niceties Social projects The desire for more Perfect or imperfect automation A simple three-factor model Paradoxes of a Malthusian world Up and down on different timescales Excellence Disequilibria Economies of scale Running out of time To the baths Feodor the Fox Outro Technological progress might create new ways of converting money into either quality or quantity of life, ways that don't have the same steeply diminishing returns that we experience today. p9 Not true. The price of those goods and services will drop quickly. For example, cancer-specific drugs. Even the price of best computer chips and satellite launching dropped dramatically in the past 10 years, and will continue for the next 30 years. Land price went up a lot. But that's investment, not consumption. Second, the economy in this full-bore automation scenario would most likely expand explosively, ...

20241212 - Foreword For this reason it is imperative that we identify a money that cannot be abused, that prohibits inflation, and allows responsible working citizens to prosper. Pxxi What is it? BTC, DogeCoin or SP500 ETF based currency? 20241213 - Introduction ......shi has multiple meanings but can be thought of as strategic positional advantage. p xxvi Winning in one strike rarely happens. For example, to get a desired job needs years of preparation, instead of just 10 minutes good performance in the job interview. To get huge profit through investment needs years of study and patience. It's more about understanding of the world, and years of actions and patience. 20241215 - Chapter One: The Daoist Sage So let's not think long term or short term. As Klipp's Paradox requires, let's think of time entirely differently, as intertemporal, comprised of a series of coordinated "now" moments, each providing for the next, none after the other, like a great piece of...

20240903 - Introduction Part I 20240903 - Chapter 1 The Long Game: From Fast Death to Slow Death Medicine's biggest failing is in attempting to treat all these conditions at the wrong end of the timescale - after they are entrenched - rather than before they take root. p16 True. There are two types of diseases. For chronic diseases, the key is early intervention. 20240904 - Chapter 2 Medicine 3.0: Rethinking Medicine for the Age of Chronic Disease Dr Attia's cross-domain thinking is amazing. Apart from the gene level medicine which may reverse ageing, we have to handle problem at early stage, to prevent compound effect that leads to the collapse of our body. 20240905 - Chapter 3 Objective, Strategy, Tactics: A Road Map for Reading This Book So far, I agree with everything Dr Attia said. Strategy and tactics are both crucial. We don't have perfect solution, but still can do something to improve our lifespan and healthspan. Part II 20240921 - Chapter 4 Centenarians: The Older...