John Haugeland - Artificial Intelligence The Very Idea

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 [In other words, Artificial Intelligence must start by trying to
understand knowledge (and skills and whatever else is ac quired)
and then, on that basis, tackle learning. It may even
happen that, //once the fundamental structures are worked
out, acquisition and adaptation will be comparatively easy to
include.//]
[Formal systems are independent of the medium in which they
are "embodied."]

Jeff Vail - A Theory of Power 

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For example, a caste of
bred laborers may develop an increased ability to tolerate memes that demand
increasingly mechanized and monotonous daily routines, without the side effects
of depression or rebellion.


S. Wolfram - A Project to Find the Fundamental Theory of Physics

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One of the great achievements of the mathematical sciences, starting about
three centuries ago, has been delivering equations and formulas that basically tell you how a
system will behave without you having to trace each step in what the system does.


N. Taleb - Lecturing Birds On Flying

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Then I realized that there has to be a problem with education—any
form of formal education. I collected enough evidence that once you
get a theory in your head, you can no longer understand how people
can operate without it. And you look at practitioners, lecture them on
how to do their business, and live under the illusion that they owe you
their lives. Without your theories and your learning, they will never go
anywhere.

Eric Jorgenson - The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

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When you do just the actual work itself, you'll be far more
productive, far more efficient. You'll work when you feel
like it-when you're high-energy-and you won't be trying
to struggle through when you're low energy. You'll gain your
time back.

Forty hour work weeks are a relic of the Industrial Age.
Knowledge workers function like athletes-train and sprint,
then rest and reassess.

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4chan

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Autism is bureaucratic delusion, just flow.


Diversity Is The New Holocaust - Amerika.org

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The most interesting math problems
do not give you a finite integer answer.
They give you a scatter plot of possible results
and a formula for how those results will change
over time as their environment reacts to them.

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Neurohacking article
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Most people live in a reality where the brain
is looked upon as a one-way receiver of information
from 'out there', and is meant to interpret and react
in appropriate ways to that information.

People believe that reality can affect the brain,
but the brain cannot affect reality.
This belief that the mind has absolutely no influence
over or relation to the material world is at the absolute
center of biological reality. The world is viewed through
an implanted screen of ideas copied from a conglomerate of
programs from parents, friends, and what is seen on television,
learned in school, and assumed to be absolutely true
and necessary for reality, survival, and social acceptance.

People's 'reality' is the result of a set of their ideas
imposed on the world, which they come to think of as the
real world itself. 'Growing up' is currently accepting a process,
of the fearful teaching others how to be afraid.