Sublime

Watch out for “topic slip.”

This is a “rich get richer” sort of model in which the more a word is used in the past, the more likely it is that it will attract more use in the future.

So, optimizing utility changes over many parallel worlds actually also optimizes wealth itself over time. That’s sort of the message.

Remember that most people will pretend to operate in your interest while operating in their own.

While scientific progress, then, proceeds by curiously exploring adjacent possibilities, preference is given to work closely tied to existing science and conducted by a privileged subset of scientists.

But occasionally some would find forecasts that would change their behavior enough to perturb the overall price pattern, causing other investors to change their forecasts to re-adapt. Cascades of mutual adjustment would then ripple through the system. The result was periods of tranquility followed randomly by periods of spontaneously generated pert

As Isaac Newton put it, after losing a fortune in the South Seas stock bubble: “I can calculate the movement of stars, but not the madness of men.”