Entropy, Compound and Game Theory

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! ...

20240626 - Chapter One - Benjamin Franklin and the Invention of America 20240627 - Chapter Two - Pilgrim's Progress: Boston, 1706-1723 Is it so tightly related to gene? Why those famous people's ancestors were all so smart and brave? By asking what seemed to be innocent questions, Franklink would draw people into making concessions that would gradually prove whatever point he was trying to assert. p27 The better approach: assuming that I could be wrong, and asking questions to confirm it. 20240628 - Chapter Three - Journeyman: Philadelphia and London, 1723-1726 "......it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do." p37 True. But how did Franklin find that? People are more likely to admire your work if you'are able to keep them from feeling jealous of you. p40 Maybe, this is the reason that most celebrities insist that their success mainly came from luck. A secret to being more revered than resented, he learned, was to display a self-d...

20230915 - Prologue: muse of fire Do we have to sacrifice some virtues to make huge success? In "Selfish Gene" and game theory, the one who want to play fairly can only get slightly above average return. Asset, power and fame are like a building. No matter how high the building is, it only takes very short time to collapse. Unless the adventure itself is the main goal, unless we really enjoy the pain and happiness come with the journey, we'd like to lose ourselves in the pursue of our aim. 20230916 - Adventures Gene and home education are both critical. How about environment? Friends when we are little? If we have siblings, then friends are not that important. Errol Musk's emerald processing business are destroyed by artifical emerald from Russia?! How many Black Swans are hiding around us? 20230916 - A mind of his own: Pretoria, the 1970s Elon Musk is an unique genius.  1. In his eyes, most of people are quite dumb, and he didn't know how to hide that feeling whe...