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See  John Harte - Disturbance and Recovery Dynamics in Complex Systems .  Richard Dawkins is going to have some sleepless nights... Shit just doesn't seem to work like it used to. It must be the AI's fault, Dick!  Subscribe to  Santa Fe Institute .  See  An Asgard archaeon from a modern analog of ancient microbial mats . Subscribe to  Anton Petrov .  There are also new molecular models that give biological media a whole new set of properties. See  Documentary About Water . Then there are pre-genetic processes, see  Nick Lane on Cellular Metabolism and the Krebs Cycle  and in particular the part starting around 32:20 on the connection between DNA codons and the molecular properties of the metabolites. Then there are  Prions and Theories of Abiogenesis  and also  Two Interesting New RNA Experiments  and Jessica Utts on Why All Scientists Should Take Psi Seriously . 

See  Nima Alkhorshid talking with Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson .  Subscribe to  Robert Elder Software . Interview with Nicole Amaral, Director and sole employee of the Digital Kitchener Innovation Lab.  Subscribe to  Communitech .  Velocity in 2009: ... and in 2017 various people had sold their startups to Microsoft and Google:  Subscribe to  UWaterloo . About 14 miles away there is another University at Guelph where the CoSy conferencing system was developed. It was like a user-friendly private version of Usenet. That software changed the world. You can get the source code from here:  https://cosy.sourceforge.net/ . The CoSy system inspired me to try to make a better one. It also set up some expectations for social media which for some reason were never met by any commercial social media systems I have seen. One of those was that there were different spaces where one could interact with different groups of people and where one could im...

27:08  "Different mechanisms for different disturbances. So we have to include explicit mechanisms if we are to understand disturbed ecosystems." This is exactly what Jaynes did in his Where do we stand on  Maximum Entropy? essay, isn't it? He gave the example of Wolf's dice data (pages 48-58), which was some data from actual throws of a real physical die which had a slight deviation from a uniform distribution. He then described a physical model of the important parameters and from an hypothesis as to how the die had been made he proposed some parameters, variations of which would have produced some changes in the distribution. Applying the MAXENT hypothesis to the model with the unknown perturbations he was able to show that the model produced a best fit.  But in the case of a recovering ecosystem one presumably has a higher-order problem because the dynamics of the ecosystem would change as the populations changed.  John Harte is in his late eighties and he sti...

My comment : 12:56  "A finite system cannot certify more  information than it contains." This sounds intriguing, but I don't really know what you mean by the verb certification. Is there some way to explain it in terms of functions of some kind?  Maybe the answer to my question is in here: Subscribe to  Computable Secrets .

See the paper  The AI Layoff Trap  by Brett Hemenway Falk and Gerry Tsoukalas.  My comment : That was great. The "tragedy of the Commons" applies to most of capitalist free market economics, any time there's a natural resource, because capitalism doesn't put any value on the resource until it is processed by someone trying to profit from their work. See  Nima Alkhorshid talking with Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson .  Subscribe to  Olive Badger .  Subscribe to  The Tech Report . 

See  Classical mechanics as the high-entropy limit of quantum mechanics  by Gabriele Carcassi, Manuele Landini and Christine A Aidala. Also available at  https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00972 . My comments : 1:14:07 My poor brain can't reconcile the idea of quantum descriptions having "a lower bound on the entropy" with classical descriptions having high entropy, because the latter seems to imply that descriptions of quantum systems, being low entropy, have an upper bound on their entropy. Is it just because the entropy of classical systems can be arbitrarily negative? I think I just missed the point that it's the process of quantizing in which we put a lower bound on the entropy of the classical description of the system, not that the lower bound is on the entropy of the quantum description we produce by quantization of the classical description. 😵‍💫 Support the Assumptions of Physics project at  https://assumptionsofphysics.org/donate/ . Subscribe to  Gabriele...

My comment : I'm bored of listening to economists. All they talk about is fiat currency and mismanaged national economies. The problem is not something you can solve within the system that produced it, because the system needs these problems: that's how people make more money. What we have to do is start a parallel economy in which the existing fiat currencies have no value, otherwise the vast amounts of currency that now exist will always be able to subvert any such attempt. The question is, how do we set up this parallel economy in such a way as to avoid it becomig like the corrupt mess to which we are trying to make an alternative? But it seems as if economists only know this central bank/MMT nonsense. So how can we do this without the help of any economists? Subscribe to  Dialogue Works .  My comments : Yes, it's f___ed up everywhere! I think it's a consequence of nearly 20 years of unbridled money-printing. There is now a stratospheric layer of funny money and a bu...

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