Entropy, Compound and Game Theory

  20260720 - Preface: On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs There was no bullshit jobs before industrial revolution. Is it necessary waste? 20260721 - Chapter 1: What Is a Bullshit Job? The author argues that "bullshit jobs" refer to those that other people can bypass and easily handle directly. According to this definition, in the age of AI, all white-collar jobs are in big trouble. PS: Once humanoid robots become widespread, blue-collar jobs will also be in big trouble. There is a very thin line between extreme luxury and total crap. p22 What is valuable extreme luxury? The ones that improve our life quality and not just because of market branding. Most of documents are useless as no one will read them. It's good idea to let AI to generate them based on relevant information, such as meeting recordings and computer source code. 20260722 - Chapter 2: What Sorts of Bullshit Jobs Are There? There is large latency between technology development and social structure/t...

  20260714 - 1 • Normal is what you’re used to How do we repay the gifts that came to us unbidden and more or less at random? p5 The real question is, how do we know what is right and what is wrong? We need to optimize our perception of the world, in our whole life. Those are the things that no one can take away from us. p24 Reward/money is not that important as it's external stuff, which belongs to "environment". Environment, Behaviour, Capabilities, Beliefs, Identity, and Purpose(Meaning and Mission). 20260715 - 2 • No one deserves anything On the other hand, if we acknowledge the issue of gift guilt, we can deal with it head-on and find ways to overcome it. p42 Gift guilt could be a problem to many wealthy people, and a lot of people when UHI is implemented. 20260715 - 3 • The myth of the level playing eld The first and most important premise is that people are equal. p48 Strongly disagree with this one. People are not equal, on all sides. But it's cri...

 20260617 - Foreword 5 20260617 - Flight into Immortality 7 He knows that this 25th of September will be an important day in world history, and with wonderful Spanish pathos this hardened, unscrupulous adventure manifests how fully he grasps the meaning of his timeless mission. p22 But most people have no idea about Vasco Nunez de Balboa, and that date, and his adventure. I doubt how much importance he really realized, although he was the first European who saw the Pacific Ocean from America continent. The governor Pedrarias opens the trial for alleged rebellion; the case is conducted quickly and unjustly. p31 What's the real reason that Pedrarias killed Balboa? The only one who can benefit from it is the king of Spain. All current top leaders believe that they will own whatever they have forever. But no cell can own the whole body, no matter how strong and how smart it is. How about AI? 20260618 - The Conquest of Byzantium 33 AI: The Fall of Constantinople (1453), as ...

  20260531 - Prologue The almost singular through line behind every major financial crisis is one thing: debt. p14 At the moment, AI related companies are borrowing a lot of money to build AI centres. This year it's over $150B, which is more than the sum of the past 2 years. Will this cause trouble in the near future? https://x.com/_FORAB/status/2060960266322588048 20260531 - Part I 20260531 - Chapter One: February 1, 1929 20260601 - Chapter Two: February 14, 1929 20260531 - Chapter Three: February 16, 1929 20260601 - Chapter Four: March 4, 1929 So far, the only issue I found is leverage. All other factors are fine. 20260606 - Chapter Five: March 5, 1929 20260607 - Chapter Six: March 26, 1929 20260607 - Chapter Seven: March 29, 1929 "The stock market will not have a very material decline unless and until there is an adverse turn in business," p101 Can interest rate changes affect companies' profit? Yes, of course. Why most of the smartest people in 19...

  20260529 - Introduction: An Eater's Manifesto In 2005 we learned that dietary fibre might not, as we'd been confidently told for years, help prevent colorectal cancers and heart disease. p5 Interesting! I don't know this. Part One: The Age of Nutritionism 20260529 - 1. From Foods to Nutrients 20260529 - 2. Nutritionism, Defined 20260529 - 3. Nutritionism Comes to Market 20260529 - 4. Food Science's Golden Age 20260530 - 5. The Melting of the Lipid Hypothesis In pace of those fats, they consumed substantially more vegetable oils, especially in the form of margarine, sales of which outpaced butter for the first time in 1957. p46 Maybe it's not that animal fat is better than seed oils, but that people should eat less. 20260530 - 6. Eat Right, Get Fatter 20260530 - 7. Beyond the Pleasure Principle 20260530 - 8. The Proof in the Low-Fat Pudding 20260531 - 9. Bad Science To really know what a person is eating you'd have to have a second invisible per...

  20260525 - Introduction to the Paperback Edition xi The solution is obvious: the economy desperately needs more fiscal support. p. xv Not just that. When factories all locked down, there were not enough goods produced. Thee goods in warehouses were close to exhausted. MMT doesn't tell us what we should do. It shows us what we can do. p xx Good point. 20260525 - Introduction: Bumper Sticker Shock 1 But evidence of overspending is inflation, and most of the time deficits are too small, not too big. p9 Inflation could be delayed by other countries' "oversea currency reserve". Without the protection of tariff, MMT doesn't work. 20260527 - 1 Don't Think of a Household 15 That can help manage inflationary pressures, by balancing the strain on our economy's real productive capacity. p33 Why does government tax normal people? To reduce the pressure of inflation. Why does government tax rich people more? To redistribute wealth from the rich to the poo...