Sublime

Homo sapiens. Whether we are playing rock, paper, scissors; improvising on a jazz theme; or exploring the possible solutions to a math problem, randomness is an essential ingredient of a solution.

And they are instantiated as a distributed processing system on human beings. They don’t particularly care about human beings. Their motives are inscrutable, to the extent that they have any, except that they’d like to get bigger. They’ve run on people. They’re implemented on people. But they are not people. They are not persons in any meaningful s

It traditionally assumed that firms were independent, and so changes would be independent, and so their sizes and aggregate effects would be distributed normally.

When something happens to the expectation value, is that actually also what happens over a long time to the thing that we are observing?

This is usually referred to as “complexity” or “chaos theory” (the Teal equivalent to Orange’s Newtonian science).

In the history of information theory, and science in general, one of the most influential research papers of the twentieth century is Claude Shannon’s “A Mathematical Theory of Communication,”