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we cannot assume that everything interesting is at the same scale as ourselves.
John Brockman • This Will Make You Smarter: 150 New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (Edge Question Series)
Sam Altman asks: why are scaling laws a property of the universe?
Daniel Selsam says intelligence emerges from compression—and the universe’s knowledge is a fractal you can keep mining.
In other words, scaling laws keep working because important concepts are sparse but inexhaustible—and inte... See more
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as cities grow and their networks evolve, the area or volume of the networks needed to keep them functionally connected tends to become smaller on a per capita basis. For example, in larger cities more people can share the same bus or segment of road or sewer pipe.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
faster churning of companies in and out of the S&P 500, the death of news and the newspaper, the failure of established