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Mac Lane's Coherence Theorem

See coherence theorem on nlab . See also  Emily Riehl and Terrence Tau on The Future of Mathematics , Then maybe  Richard Clegg Explaining What's Wrong With Computer Science and  About Logic Interview with Graham Priest . There is in fact a long tradition of quite rigorous thought about proofs in the Category of Categories: see  doctrine on nLab . 

Michael Hudson Interviewed by Glenn Diesen

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The rentiere economy . It's a really interesting take! You end up with most of the economic growth being interest paid by landlords on their mortgages. See his book  The Destiny of Civilization .  Subscribe to Glenn Diesen .  Subscribe to David Gilmour .  Joining the dots:  The Future is Closer than I Thought Modern Day Alchemy Peñico in Peru was constructed by a 5,000 year-old culture

Ben Sparks - Reinterpreting Games

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Subscribe to Numberphile . Then I listened to this discussion about AI maths, where this Putnam problem came up: See the discussion at 16:55 Subscribe to  Weights and Biases .

Peñico in Peru was constructed by a 5,000 year-old culture

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It has an interesting story about climate-change:   Archaeologists in Peru have uncovered a 3,500-year-old city that is changing what scientists know about early civilization in the Americas. The site, known as Peñico, reveals complex urban planning and trade networks dating back millennia. Dan Collyns visits the newly excavated ruins to explore how this discovery challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of civilization in the region. Subscribe to CGTN America .

Ian Clarke on Freenet

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See  https://freenet.org/   I was told that this is considered a "thought crime".  My comment :  I have some questions: 1. A decentralized system is by default fragmented, out of the box, as it were. Do you have any protocols for network identification? The idea is that a user would like to have some reasons to believe that they're connecting to a genuine network, not a spoofed one, and that they are connected to the entire network, and not just a jail where they can see everyone else and no-one can see them, or where all their interaction is mediated by some man-in-the-middle. 2. Distributed updates can overlap, so do you have any protocols that can help to establish a total order on some class of events? This is related to my previous question.  See  HVM2 Interaction Combinator Evaluator  and note at 6:49 the property of interaction combinators.  32:18 On using AI to  "get up to feature-parity" with "the Internet". Don't do that! See...

Jonas Birch on Old News

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See this 2013 story  US intelligence agency the NSA subverted a standards process to be able to break encryption more easily, according to leaked documents. Subscribe to Dr Jonas Birch .  But seriously, once this is known, you would want to take some steps to stop it happening again, wouldn't you? Unless you were making a comfortable living from taking payoffs, publishing bullshit books about computer security etc. See  "Security Theater" . 

Daniel Tubbenhauer Explaining What Lie Groups and Lie Algebras Are

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Part 2: See part 1 in:  Daniel Tubbenhauer is starting a course on Lie theory . I should really try and understand this ( 17:23 ),... See  Steven Johnson - So You Think You Know How to Take Derivatives? Subscribe to The Julia Programming Language .  YouTube AI says this is about the theory of lies: The trouble is that it doesn't tell you that this is not what the person wrote, and it gives you no way to see the original, so it is misrepresenting people, but the stupid dorks who work there don't think this matters. Subscribe to Daniel Tubbenhauer . 

Modern Day Alchemy

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The Future is Closer than I Thought

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3:33 Mobilising the workforce is the hard part. But the payoff, wow! I thought of doing something very similar in Bolivia , but the climate here is not the same as the high Arctic, so in some respects it would have been different. Here's how it started .  There's a reason why he went the Nation-state route: See  Tina Using ChatGPT to Learn How to Work Adobe Illustrator .  Subscribe to  Robert Elder Software .  Subscribe to Tinie Ann .  Subscribe to Cyb3rMaddy .   You don't need to know anything about the future apart from the fact that there are certain people who own large amounts of stock and they can profit from these crashes, because they cause them. All they need is over-inflated markets, and that can be anything: real estate, junk debt, US treasury bonds, bullshit AI, quantum computers, literally anything. They just need a market that's primed for a dip, then they can set it off whenever they like, and pump it back up within a few days, in the m...

Terence McKenna, Nick Herbert and Tim Palmer

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He was sent a copy of Nick Herbert's book  Faster than light : Superluminal loopholes in physics  by the publisher. I looked it up, and found this Scientific American piece  The Faster-Than-Light Telegraph That Wasn't . It turns out this was the origin of the "no cloning theorem" of quantum mechanics. See  Curt Jaimungal Interview With Robert Spekkens  and  Anton Petrov on An Idea About Time . Subscribe to We Plants Are Happy Plants . See also this interview with Tim Palmer:  8:31 on non-locality. 56:54  See his preprint  Impossible Counterfactuals, Discrete Hilbert Space and Bell's Theorem  and  Curt Jaimungal Interview With Robert Spekkens . My comment : 1:08:51 How many violations of conservation of matter and energy are observed in high-energy particle physics? It seems unreasonable to expect these universal laws to hold at all levels. [See  The Action Lab - Branched Flow  and  Chris Lehto - Cosmic Octaves ]. S...