Entropy, Compound and Game Theory

20250725 - Chapter 1: The Texan Catch-22 required that each censored letter bear the censoring officer's name. p9 Is this what this book about? No one monitor the ones who are in charge? 20250725 - Chapter 2: Clevinger 20250725 - Chapter 3: Havermeyer 20250725 - Chapter 4: Doc Daneeka "Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?" "I do." Dunbar told him. p44 It's boredom vs pain. Boredom is worse than pain, as pain may some potential benefit to us later on, while boredom is always futile. 20250725 - Chapter 5: Chief White Halfoat Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy. p52 True. Just like that any cell in our body is on duty if it works. Or else, it will be disolved. There is no way to run away. The only thing we can do is to run away in advance. 20250806 - Chapter 6: Hungry Joe 20250806 - Chapter 7: McWatt 20250806 - Chapter 8: Lieut...

PART I: Welcome to the Hyper-Meritocracy 20250831 - 1: Work and Wages in iWorld Marriages, families, businesses, countries, cities, and regions all will see a greater split in material outcomes; namely, they will either rise to the top in terms of quality or make do with unimpressive results. p4 Well said. How about our health, including physical health and mental health? Technological progress slows down when there are too many people who have the right to say no, but software in general gets around a lot of the traditional veto points. p17 This is a real problem for self-driving cars, but is it a problem for humanoid robots in factories? It sounds a little silly, but making high earners feel better in just about every part of their lives will be a major source of job growth in the future. p23 A lot of wealthy people will like that. But that's dumb. Budda was wealthy, and didn't need anyone to make him feel better. 20250904 - 2: The Big Earners and the Big Losers It sounds a l...

20251007 - Introduction Our characteristics will not change. At least to most of people. 20251007 - Hanging by a Thread "And then what?" p14 This is the critical part to tests the limits of our perception. 20251008 - Risk Is What You Don’t See The fact that you can't see it coming is exactly what makes it risky. p18 Black Swans. Only extra buffer can intimigate the problem, and only deep understanding of the world can make us choose the right position. Expectations and forecasts are two different things, and in a world where risk is what you don't see, the former is more valuable than the latter. p21 20251008 - Expectations and Reality "If you only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are." p23 Investor Charlie Munger once noted that the world isn't driven by greed; it's driven by envy. p24 20251008 - Wild Minds 2...