Sublime

But this sort of omnivorous eclectic mindset, which is very much what the SFI is, that is an aspect of physics that has been built into the genome of the SFI. That’s what would be necessary to be able to go after those kinds of aspects of conventional economics, which are just sitting there and have been for over half a century. Nobody’s actually

As I researched and wrote, I discovered the potential for the three miracles: excess capacity that lets us scale at exponential speeds, platforms that produce exponential learning, and diverse peers that give us real-time access to the right minds.

“They have hired astronomers; they have hired mathematicians; they have hired physicists; they have even hired theologists. They never even interviewed an economist.”

Both are dynamic systems in which the selfish actions of countless individuals—whether they be cells or investors—lead to unpredictable consequences at the system level. In turn, these collective actions and consequences feed back to influence individual actions in endless cycles of adaptation and evolution.

Claude Shannon,

What Darwin and Turing did was envisage the most extreme version of this point: all the brilliance and comprehension in the world arises ultimately out of uncomprehending competences compounded over time into ever more competent—and hence comprehending—systems.

These are all highly contestable statements.