Entropy, Compound and Game Theory

20260903 - Preface Hence Adam Smith's free-trade and free-market trinity: freedom, prosperity and security. p xii This only suits democracy countries, which follow the same rules. 20260903 - An introduction by Tom Butler-Bowdon.....xiii How much a good or service costs generally depends on the amount of labour that has gone into its making. p xix What if this "amount of labour" turns into zero because AI and robots? Smith admitted that the modern factory system could easily lobotomize workers. p xxi That's the cost of high productivity. Bullshit Jobs This aversion to war runs throughout The Wealth of Nations, principally because Smith felt it was a shocking waste of a society's resources. p xxviii This is the weak point of this book. Robust is as important as productivity. We need to sacrifice some productivity to prevent building a fragile system. Globalization is important, but distributional production make the world stronger. Smith highlights the fac...

  20260907 - Section 1..........1 20260908 - Section 2..........17 Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery? It is another form of slavery. No form is real, and all will go collapse. That's decided by entropy. However, life is about strive. There is no correct form. Anything that cause further order is good. 20260908 - Section 3..........33 "My son, I carry on as if I should never die." I replied: "And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute." "Which one of us was right, boss?" p38 They both think that the past and the future don't exist. Only the moment is real. 20260908 - Section 4..........47 20260912 - Section 5..........61 "Let people be, boss; don't open their eyes." "Unless when they open their eyes you can show them a better world than the darkness in which they're gallivanting at present...Can you?" p67 First, normally ...

  20260929 - Introduction: Hard Calls and Easy Calls PART I: NONHUMAN MINDS 20260930 - Chapter 1: Humanity’s Special Power Individual chimpanzees sometimes kill individual humans, but there is a reason why our species is trying to protect their species from being accidentally extinguished. p28 Good point! 20260930 - Chapter 2: Grown, Not Crafted, 30 20260930 - Chapter 3: Learning to Want 20260930 - Chapter 4: You Don’t Get What You Train For, 46 Such an alien might reason that, if hominids evolved more intelligence, built higher technology, and so gained access to a wider space of possible foods that super-hominids could create, then they'd love the taste of gasoline. Or better yet, jet fuel. p49 Why this didn't happen? But gradient descent works directly on every part of a large mind that it's tuning, whereas natural selection tunes small genomes that work as a sort of recipe for a large brain. p53 What does this mean? You can't grow an AI that does what yo...

  20260910 - Introduction 3 Von Mises argued that as a result, the social welfare states then emerging in places like France or England, let alone Denmark or Sweden, would, within a generation or two, inevitably lead to fascism. p8 What is the root cause of bureaucracy? Elon Musk once said that if you give yourself three hours to clean your room, it will take three hours. If you only give yourself ten minutes, then ten minutes will be enough. This can be considered a form of personal bureaucracy. Do corporate employees care about the fate of the company? They do not. They care more about their salaries and bonuses. Managers have one more concern: how much power they possess. Do corporate shareholders care about the fate of the company? They do not. They care more about whether they can secure lucrative returns. Do customers care about the fate of the company? They do not. Does the government care about the fate of the company? It does not. Thanks to the Wealth of Nations...

  20260829 - THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS - 1 20260829 - Chapter 1 - An Absurd Reasoning - 3 Absurdity and Suicide Absurd Walls Philosophical Suicide Absurd Freedom The world is absurd. There is no meaning. But we don't live because it's meaningful, or because that's correct choice. We live to enjoy and have fun. At least, we expect to get some fun in the future. Religion is critical here. Can we just use the enjoyment from screens to comfort ourselves? Not likely. Happiness is more about the future, not the moment. We need to tell our genes that they will thrive. 20260901 - Chapter 2 - The Absurd Man - 66 Don Juanism Drama Conquest 20260902 - Chapter 3 - Absurd Creation - 93 Philosophy and Fiction "Art and nothing but art, "said Niezsche; "we have art in order not to die of the truth." p93 We can get real pleasure out of art. Art shows the pattern of the big data of the real world. Movie, music, and even computer games are the form of art. ...

  20260815 - Prologue: The Journey of a Lifetime Never let the quest for more distract you from the beauty of enough . p13 Designing Your Dream Life 20260815 - 1. One Thousand Years of Wisdom: What Advice Would You Give to Your Younger Self? 20260815 - 2. The Five Types of Wealth What did Buddha feel about his parents? 20260815 - 3. The Wealth Score 20260816 - 4. The Life Razor: Keeping the Earth in the Window My life razor: I am the one who is aware of my ego. 20260816 - 5. Your True North: Climbing the Right Mountain Time Wealth 20260820 - 6. The Big Question: How Many Moments Do You Have Remaining with Your Loved Ones? 20260820 - 7. A Brief History of Time 20260821 - 8. The Three Pillars of Time Wealth 20260821 - 9. The Time Wealth Guide: Systems for Success Flint replied that he would work on those whenever he had free time. Buffett shook his head and replied that everything Flint hadn't circled should become his avoid at All Costs List. p91 I don't think p...