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\n", " \n", "- What makes for a suitable problem for AI (Demis Hassabis, Nobel Lecture)?\n", "
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\n", "- Space: Massive combinatorial search space
\n", "- Function: Clear objective function (metric) to optimize against
\n", "- Time: Either lots of data and/or an accurate and efficient simulator
\n", "- Guess what else fits the bill (Yours truly, amateur philosopher)?\n", "
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\n", "- Space\n", "
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\n", "- Intestines/villi
\n", "- Lungs/bronchioles
\n", "- Capillary trees
\n", "- Network of lymphatics
\n", "- Dendrites in neurons
\n", "- Tree branches
\n", "- Function\n", "
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\n", "- Energy
\n", "- Aerobic respiration
\n", "- Delivery to \"last mile\" (minimize distance)
\n", "- Response time (minimize)
\n", "- Information
\n", "- Exposure to sunlight for photosynthesis
\n", "- Time\n", "
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\n", "- Nourishment
\n", "- Gaseous exchange
\n", "- Oxygen & Nutrients (Carbon dioxide & \"Waste\")
\n", "- Surveillance for antigens
\n", "- Coherence of functions
\n", "- Water and nutrients from soil
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Personalized Medicine, National Identity, and Trump. With Trevor Noah and Company.
\n", "\n", "\n", "\n", "\n", "Nature has perfected this process over millennia. A tree’s filtering system is resilient and adaptive, capable of adjusting to environmental shifts. Yet human systems, unlike trees, often suffer from rigidity, resisting adaptation until crisis forces transformation. The lesson here is that **healthy illusions depend on honest filters**, and honest filters depend on a willingness to acknowledge truth, however inconvenient it may be. \n", "\n", "To seek unfiltered truth is folly—it is beyond the capacity of any system, be it biological or cognitive. But to recognize filtration as a necessary but manipulable process? That is wisdom. It is the difference between being a passive recipient of illusion and an active participant in shaping reality.\n", "\n", "\n", "\n", " History is a fractal unfolding of entropy and order, a ceaseless churn where civilizations rise on the back of extracted resources and collapse under the weight of their own complexity. The notion that progress is linear is an illusion; the arrow of time merely inscribes the same motifs at different scales. To observe history is to witness the second law of thermodynamics in slow motion—an empire, a city, a culture, each structured around an energetic peak before unraveling into diffusion. Yet entropy does not mean chaos; it is the necessary precondition for renewal.\n", "
\n", " — Yours Truly\n", "