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Contrary to the naive view, information isn’t the raw material of truth, and human information networks aren’t geared only to discover the truth. But contrary to the populist view, information isn’t just a weapon, either. Rather, to survive and flourish, every human information network needs to do two things simultaneously: discover truth and creat
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Randomness can make placebos seem like miracle cures, or harmless compounds appear to be deadly poisons, and can even create subatomic particles out of nothing.
David Brooks • This Will Make You Smarter
a remarkable chain of events the triangle of observations, theorizing, and anthropic reasoning on λ—each one revolutionary in its own right—came together in the early 2000s. It is this confluence of ideas that led to anthropic multiverse cosmology,
Thomas Hertog • On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
However, they found that that stipulation barely made a difference; the theory complemented with the anthropic principle ended up predicting a universe with just one galaxy—ours—and nothing in any way resembling a universe teeming with galaxies like the one we observe.
Thomas Hertog • On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
Our interests in life are not always served by viewing people and things as collections of atoms—but this doesn’t negate the truth or utility of physics.
Sam Harris • Free Will
