August 5, 2022
Existentialism
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General Framework
Religion or Philosophy or Nothing?
From physics to Existentialism
Why Existentialism
Sea of endless purposes, but you can pick one
With your picked purpose, a clear path can be made
To move around intellectually one must first pick a general framework to work within. A framework is needed to give your thoughts motivation and relativity compared with others.
Why Humans Collect
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The objective biology of it
January 13, 2022
Why Math
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A true understanding of any system (a system can really represent anything: the United States’ economy, the hydrogen atom in quantum mechanics, a sports game, etc.) must be scientific. When investigating anything, a question of “why” can be asked at any level of the system. If we keep asking why, we will inevitably reach the discipline of physics, where the language is mathematics. To understand is to quantify, and if things are too heuristic or qualitative, we must create a mapping or model to understand.
August 15, 2021
An objects should be based on its raw material inputs and time and energy to create. Capitalism inflates the price of certain things based on location, as it is a limited value, and the supple of that thing.
August 12, 2021
In a society there will always be people that break the rules. We will leave the discussion of the nature of these rules for later, and focus on how to treat and process the ‘rule breakers’. Lets first start with the trivial solution.
The trivial solution would be that of zero, doing nothing. If the thought of doing nothing to a person who breaks a particular rule seems reasonable, then the rule itself is probably at fault for the illogical solution. Lets take an easy example, murder. Pondered elsewhere in this website, the goal of building a society includes actively promoting the well-being of your citizens. The killing of one of your citizens, therefore, goes in direct opposition of this goal and should prompt the creation of a rule. Now if someone murders another, going in direct opposition of the goal of the society, the ‘rule break’ process should trigger. If this process is the trivial solution, i.e. no process, this person may murder again. This solution is not the society actively promoting the well-being of their citizens and should be concluded to be incorrect. If we look to another example of theft, a similar conclusion should be made; this theft is most likely decreasing the well-being of the person at the other end of the theft and is then a concern of the society at large (But it is increasing the well-being of the person who is stealing! Discussion of this point inquiries into the timeline of crime and average well-being as well as why people creak rules in the first place. I will hopefully discuss this later.)
August 12, 2021
- Is capitalism steady-state?
- Sending letters to the telegram to the iPhone
- Perfection is impossible to reach unless defined solely by mathematics, but even then measure certainty is still present.
- With this dynamic change, however, the product or system must still be stable and functioning
- Dynamic change must be allowed
- No system or product is perfect at conception
- Perfection can only be rigorously defined through mathematics, and even within math itself, it is impossible to reach. Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem tells us that no consistent system is capable of proving all truths and that the system cannot demonstrate its own consistency. The human language is already full of loosely defined terms that incorporate interpretation, so in an attempt to show that something in perfect mathematics is needed to generate that proof. In order to transfer these physical ideas that are defined within the human language measurements are needed. But with measurements come uncertainties, which then filter into our mathematical landscape that possess holds.
- This un-reachable perfect occurs even in the most simple examples, but humans still live on and with certainty about the painted world around them. Even though perfection cannot be achieved humans can get extremely close to it and for all intents and purposes can safely assume its correctness.
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http://abyssinia-iffat.com/DoesPerfectionExist.htm
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http://www.alevelphilosophy.co.uk/handouts_religion/PlatoTheoryForms.pdf
- Another good mathematical, and useful, interpretation of this un-reachable perfect is with the asymptote. Given our function < f(t) = 1 - e^(-t) >, we can see at t = 0, f(0) = 0. But as x increases in value f(t) gets closer and closer to 1. Now in the finite time set, the one which you, I, and all other humans live in, f(t) will never reach 1 a.k.a. perfect. But if we allow our function to run for infinite time, mathematically speaking, f(t) will reach 1.
- So what now? Perfect doesn’t exist; nothing in our lives is certain; why do we even do this? Although perfection cannot be achieved, we still possess its abstraction in our minds
August 12, 2021
On the surface, freedom sounds like an amazing feature to have in your society. Why should I have people telling me how I can live my life? But even with that question, I can already see a flaw. Laws are clearly needed in a society, but they limit my freedom. So maybe freedom is not as strong as we first thought.
The question for building any society to break down the needed and desired features. With this, you will also need to provide the goal of your society, something to guide the implementers in their quest. Without this baseline goal (may sometimes be compared to that of a mission statement in another reading), the reasoning and decisions for you implementation are backed by nothing.
August 12, 2021
To think that Capitalism is the steady-state or even the best economic system that humans can think of is a slap in the face of the engineering mindset. But even with that, it is true to say that it is the strongest and most powerful system that is in place today (2021). We can add higher-order Socialist terms to help correct some of the downfalls of Capitalism, but switching to Socialism, as our economic system would not be beneficial.
August 12, 2021
When humans were first starting to socialize and group together, peer to peer connectivity was high but low in numbers. Tribal communities of max 150-200 people had high peer-to-peer connectivity. People in the tribe knew each other very closely and personally. They had to. Without a large fictional group to be organized by, people had to actually learn and trust each other.
But as technology increases, the level of peer-to-peer connectivity decreases. Likewise, the number of connections does increase as technology increases. Technology, in this sense, is anything that can get better over time. The human brain is a piece of technology that can improve over time. Societies and governments are a piece of technology that can improve over time. Electronic devices are a piece of technology that can improve over time.
August 12, 2021
Imagine you’re designing a scheduling scheme for the CPU in your computer. Or in another abstraction, you’re attempting to run multiple programs on your computer. (The computer architecture analogy works well when dealing with systems that need to be optimized because CPU schedulers and computers in general have been optimized both on a heuristic and mathematical level. They are great examples of engineers and theorists doing amazing work.) In both of these scenarios, we have an entity that needs to manage multiple tasks. Some tasks may be of high priority, but for now each tasks needs to get done and progress relatively evenly. Now lets say one task holds on to this processing entity indefinitely because it does not want the others tasks to progress. Your computer is now frozen. Lets now explore the possibilities of why this task would freeze your computer. One possible reason of why your computer is now frozen is because the other tasks are actually malware and were going to damage your computer. We would then thank the task that froze your computer as it was protecting you. A different possibility is that this freezing task is actually the malware, and wanted to freeze your computer to halt your work. In either scenario, a corrupt task was let into your queue. This is more of a problem involving the input security of your computer and not the process scheduler. Now how does this translate to the United State’s Congress?
August 10, 2021
If a word does not have a defined functionality or purpose attached/associated with it, that word has not been optimized.
A sharper-than-normal rock might be used as a cutting tool, no one has sharpened this rock with purpose. It is just an object found in nature. It’s sharpness only arises from the action of erosion or gravity dropping it. Likewise, this rock has not been created by a human, an organism with the ability to think abstractly about things and to create with purpose. This rock, then, is probably not as sharp as your average kitchen knife, something that have been created with a purpose.