Sublime

The theory precisely explains how to update our beliefs after each observation.

Turing’s genius: he discovered that if two machines had been initialized in the same way, it introduced a slight bias in the distribution of letters, so that the two messages were slightly more likely to resemble each other.

While other systems start with a preconceived order of topics, Luhmann developed topics bottom up, then added another note to his slip-box, on which he would sort a topic by sorting the links of the relevant other notes. The last element in his file system was an index, from which he would refer to one or two notes that would serve as a kind of ent

that people—or, if you like, automata, algorithms—can and do act in situations that are not well defined.

documentary titled Singularity or Bust, Hugo de Garis,