Entropy, Compound and Game Theory

20260115 - Preface 20260115 - Introduction ......adult male workers lost out: the share of children workers rapidly expanded, reaching about half of the workforce employed in textiles during the 1830s. p9 I never thought of this! Sending children to school killed two birds with one stone. And more broadly, cascading competition among nation-states made it harder to align technological conservatism with the political status quo. The outside threat of political replacement became greater than the threat of rebelling workmen from below. p19 The political elites never back off unless they are under existential external threat. All the same. Part I. The Great Stagnation 20260120 - 1. A Brief History of Preindustrial Progress - 33 What's the difference between labor-saving technology and enabling(capital-saving) technology? Labor-saving technology use power from sources other than human. This power includes both energy and intelligence. Fierce war and competitions crash the restrain...

20251231 - PART ONE - Peter Keating, p15 To hide the joints in wood - when columns were made of wood, only these aren't, they're marble. p23 It's hard to believe that the archtects in 1940s didn't change their design with new materials coming out, such as steel and concrete, considering that Empire State Building was build in 1931. Howard Roark follow the first principles. That's good. He doesn't care other people's opinion, if those opinions are obviously wrong. That's also good. But no need to let other people realize that directly. We can stay humber, and ignore the objections from others. For example, he should take one year break from school, instead of being kicked out of school. Howard Roark lacks soft skill, such as communication skill and empathy. Keating has both soft skill and hard skill, although his hard skill is far behind Roark. Howard Roark is the modern version of Nikola Tesla, and Keating is more like Thomas Edison. Most of CEO only hav...

20251117 - Introduction Positioning is the first body of thought that comes to grips with the difficult problem of getting heard in our overcommunicated society. p3 Feels like "identity" to individual person. 20251118 - Chapter 1. What Positioning Is All About. In general, the mind accepts only that which matches prior knowledge or experience. p6 It's always like this. Only small percentage of people are sensitive, and are willing to change their perception of the world. People can understand and accept radio-controlled autonomous cars, but not AI controlled cars. By turning the process around, by focusing on the prospect rather than the product , you simplify the selection process. p9 20251118 - Chapter 2. The Assault on the Mind. How to handle the overcommunicated society? Let AI to handle it? Only if AI never tell lies. 20251119 - Chapter 3. Getting Into the Mind. From the product era to the image era, then to the positioning era. p24 Can I go back to the product era? ...

20251115 - Introduction xiii Is one hour meditation that different from 20 minutes meditation? Yes, based on AI(GPT-5.1). Part 1 The Experiment 20251116 - Chapter 1 The Worst Breathers in the Animal Kingdom 3 20251116 - Chapter 2 Mouthbreathing 19 This process(anaerobic respiration) explains why the first few minutes of an intense workout are often so miserable. p24 Does this mean that we may use deep breath to partly replace warming up exercise? Part 2 The lost Art and Science of Breathing 20251116 - Chapter 3 Nose 37 The right nostril: logical decisions, language, and computing. Less hallucinations. The left nostril: imagination, creativity, negative emotions. 3M Nexcare Durapore "durable cloth" tape. p51 Worth trying! 20251201 - Chapter 4 Exhale 53 The key to breathing, lung expansion, and the long life that came with it was on the other end of respiration. It was in the transformative power of a full exhalation. p59 The stories from Carl Stough are suspecious, in...

This book is boring. Nothing new in it. 20251126 - FOREWORD 20251126 - Introduction 20251126 - Chapter 1 - What is Super Intelligence and Why Does it Matter To some extent, I think that the point of singularity was passed 300 years ago, with James Watt's steam engine. 20251126 - Chapter 2 - Real-World Applications and Niches The author is quite naive about the effect of AI. AI and human both are part of the system. If AI is so smart and powerful, that would make human weak. Good times create weak men. Extremely good times create extremely weak men. 20251126 - Chapter 3 - The Economic Boom of Super Intelligence 20251126 - Chapter 4 - Life in an SI World. 20251126 - Chapter 5 - The Dark Side of AI: Navigating the Shadows in an Abundant Future 20251126 - Chapter 6 - Individual Survival Strategies 20251126 - Chapter 7 - Become Unrecognizable or Disappear The ASI Disruption It's large companies vs small companies. The importance of asset will keep rising. That's why huge compani...

Part One: Cosmos 20250930 - 1. The Fundamental Nature of Reality 20251001 - 2. Poetic Naturalism 20251002 - 3. The World Moves By Itself 20251003 - 4. What Determines What Will Happen Next? 20251003 - 5. Reasons Why Metaphysical principles are tempting shortcuts but not reliable guides. p41 The book tries to analyze philosophy using psychology. That's amazing. 20251004 - 6. Our Universe Astronomers estimate that the last dim star will wink out around 1 quadrillion(10^15) years from now. p52 After about 1 googol(10^100) years, all of the black holes in our observable universe will have evaporated into a think mist of particles, which will grow more nad more dilute as space continues to expand. p53 If we build a Dyson Sphere to absorb the radiation around a black hole, that could provide enough energy to support our civilization. 20251004 - 7. Time’s Arrow In equilibrium, time has no arrow. p58 Is this the reason that we age slower if eat less? If we can easily make a pile of ash bac...