Entropy, Compound and Game Theory

  20260612 - Introduction, page ix. They had simply had the good fortune (or perhaps misfortune) to arrive during a climactic "Goldilocks period" - a sweet spot when everything happened to be just right for agriculture. p xi True. But many years later, with the help of modern technology, including synthetic fertilizers, dams and wells, agriculture in Australia went very well. There is still hope in full automation age. 20260612 - Chapter 1 The Automation Wave, page 1. 20260613 - Chapter 2 Is This Time Different?, page 29. The year 1973 was an eventful one in the history of the United States. p34 The following year, real average wages began a precipitous decline from which they would never fully recover. p35 Is it just because women started their career? In other words, the problem is not that more jobs are being destroyed in downturns; it is that fewer are being created during recoveries. p44 During recoveries, I don't think entrepreneurs have enough money to up...

  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...