Entropy, Compound and Game Theory

  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...

  20260819 - Prologue 1 20260819 - PART I: SOLON'S WARNING - SKEWNESS, ASYMMETRY, INDUCTION 9 20260819 - One: If You're So Rich Why Aren't You So Smart? 13 Mild success can be explainable by skills and labour. Wild success is attributable to variance. p12 No really. Wild success is attributable to skills and labour and variance. Rich and solid rich is quite different. 20260819 - Two: A Bizarre Accounting Method 28 How can I remind myself of the potential risk? Which part of my perception is illusion? 20260820 - Three: A Mathematical Meditation on History 46 My models showed that ultimately almost nobody really survived; bears dropped out like flies in the rally and bulls ended up being slaughtered, as paper profits vanished when the music stopped. But there was one exception; some of those who traded options had remarkable staying power and I wanted to be one of those. p50 I think Mr Taleb must used leverage. The risk is much lower if no leverage, and close to ze...

  20260808 - Chapter One The Flowering of Human Consciousness - 1 It's surprise that Eckhart Tolle got almost everything wrong, when they are related to science. No doubt he has perfect control of his mind(consciousness), but he is not humble in front of science. There are a lot of things that science itself cannot handle properly, so far. We still need to learn to live in the moment. 20260809 - Chapter Two Ego: The Current State of Humanity - 25 Ego is our major obstacle. At that stage, some children refer to themselves in the third person. "Johnny is hungry." p28 Can I play this trick? If I use my name to replace "I" in thinking, then the real "I" is behind my thoughts. If I notice the difference between these two all the time, then it will be much easier to prevent myself been controlled by emotion or subconsciousness. The ego isn't wrong; it's just unconscious. p42 The ultimate boss is not the ego, but "I". How can I sto...

  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...

  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...

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...

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...

20250617 - Preface Yes this book missed China. It missed that the competition between democracy and dictatorship will not end so quickly, because dictatorship has its own advantages. Computers and internet will push both side to extreme. What will happen? What's the role of AI in information society. 20250621 - Chapter 1: The Transition of the Year 2000: The Fourth Stage of Human Society (In information societies,) It will prove difficult or impossible to preserve many contemporary institutions in the new millennium. p17 Government is getting bigger in the past 27 years, through money printing(unanchered government debt). Genius will be unleashed, freed from both the oppression of government and the drags of racial and ethnic prejudice. p18 Roughly correct. In the future, when most wealth can be earned anywhere, and even spent anywhere, governments that attempt to charge too much as the price of domicile will merely drive away their best customers. p21 Yes and No. Many governments ...

20250528 - pt. 1. Orientation The political philosopher Francis Fukuyama......in his 1989 essay "The End of History." p29 What a joke. And with great power comes great fear of losing it. p36 Am I feared of losing, let's say, half of my asset? 20250530 - pt. 2. Five steps This is how hatred is created: two different groups, each insisting they're on the moral high ground. p53 We need an objective standards to measure it, such as median income. Rather than illusory justice or morality. Anything that improve median income, most likely to be right. "A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished." p62 "It's a false sense of security" p68 The most common mistake, I reckon. "A lot of people didn't think things would get any worse, " she answered. "And by that point, it was harder for Jews to leave." p71 Wishful thinking. It's like share price. We never know how high or how lo...

20250603 - 1 Optimize Your Life No, you cannot get me to work two hours just to buy that shirt! p11 It's natural to be thrifty if income is low. Many psychological studies have shown that spending money on experience makes us happier than spending money on things. p13 Why? It force us to pay attention to the moment. If we can pay attention to the moment all the time, then we stop living on autopilot. From big data training point of view, that means we will not treat daily activities as noise but real data. 20250604 - 2 Invest in Experiences The main idea here is that your life is the sum of your experiences. p22 It's wrong. Based on the book "Think, fast and slow", we only remember the peak points and the end. So we should not pay much attention to general experiences. I realized that you retire on your memories. p23 This is against "live in the moment", which doesn't rely on our memories. We don't need great memory to stay happy after retirement. By...