Entropy of Intelligence+meme

Posted by s on July 1, 2008, 8:55 a.m.

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Given intelligence is applied with entropy, the basis should then give that when it is more distributed it is useless. This therefore implies that the feared brain drain which concentrates intelligence into a focused area is a good process. Still, to create a useful concentration which lowers the entropy of an area requires the increase in entropy elsewhere, thus the loss of intelligence from where they are being absorbed

Therefore, we need to stop trying to stop brain drains and let the intelligence focus itself into a giant laser beam that will blow up Earth with spiky hot meteors

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Now then, I will silently pay my meme debt

(You really shouldn't read these things, I'm sure they're bad for your health)

Five years ago I was 11. I was entering G6 which means I was still in my long period of drone. I had premature obsessions through G6 which were of basic philosophy, classical music, any child TV show, couldn't sit through a movie, read fiction and played video games, didn't really look at life, was for the Green Party

A couple years later I was sick of philosophy because I figured it was all just jaw jabber, I was listening to squeaky MIDIs, watched Opera, could sit through a movie if ordered to, wasn't reading too much, was spending time with GM more than playing video games (besides a bit of SNES emulating), saw life as dying but no reason to pout, and was for the Green Party

(This may seem like a dark age, but I also found the internet and Wikipedia. So I sat around learning)

Now I'm interested in reading about philosophy and from that developing my own philosophy, listening to techno that isn't MIDI, TV is boring, I'll watch a movie even if it isn't a comedy (Then again, science fiction movies are still comedies), been reading again (More variety, like nonfiction), have spread my language knowledge to a variety of languages (Foundational knowledge, I'm not really one to write Lisp or Haskell code, but I understand their basis. Lisp also was a good introduction to functional programming and I've further found that beauty in Python. Anyone who reads these unfronteds already knows how often I learn a new language. As Tom said "You're learning a new language every time I talk to you, slow down"(In reply to my learning Javascript for Project Parallax(I ended up teaching him a few things about how Javascript's functional paradigm, since it has first class functions))), see life as the instantaneous beauty of entropy, and am for the more humanitarian environmental parties (Like the NDP). Oh, and I actually look into what I believe in now

Oh, and religion. Atheist, but I've been a bit more agnosticly atheist recently

@Sk8=Hobbies are for people who need to do more work

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Comments

s 16 years, 6 months ago

True. How unsure can we be that they didn't share everything, though?

Juju 16 years, 6 months ago

Well, language for one. Compare Chinese, Hebrew and the Romance language family (French, Spanish et cetera) - totally different languages with different rules. If they shared everything, the languages would be convergent or at least share noteable features.

Look at European languages, they (for the large part) use the Latin alphabet because the concept of individual letters representing individual particles of speech was communicated. Greek and Cyrillic are of a similar ilk. Now look at Chinese, Hindi and Japanese - they share a pictoral relationship where each character signifies a separate object or concept. Even in the new world, Aztec, Olmec and Inca records are either pictoral or arranged as knots on string: Khipus.

Words are often shared between languages even if they are in a different script: Algebra, bazaar and alcohol all hail form Islamic influences. Russian also borrows words from French and, more surprisngly, Chinese. Every language will borrow words from its neighbours or trading partners, even from cultures it has conquered. Given that basic words from European and Asian languages are not shared to the same extent as others shows that any transfer of information and ideas was limited.

Yet the silk routes and spice routes were famed in the first millenia, the writers of the New Testament were aware of countries far to the East, even Egyptians knew of other cultures far beyond their borders. The fact that Egyptians used the colour blue in some of their heiroglyphics showed that trade permeated the ancient world - pigments in Egyptian tombs have been linked to Afgan rocks.

s 16 years, 6 months ago

Amen