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computers “information has attained a conceptual and practical status equal to – and frequently surpassing – that of energy”
animals spread their required computations across networks which absorb regularities over different timescales: neurons and nerves adapt the fastest but are most costly, hormones respond at intermediate speeds, muscles adapt at monthly or weekly rates by growing or shrinking, and bones absorb regularities slowest but cheapest
only 2% of human DNA actually codes for proteins and a big portion of the rest of the so called non-coding DNA seems to do nothing for us at all. It is even sometimes referred
Curiosity, the rover currently deployed in Mars, has advanced less than the distance of a half-marathon throughout its almost 10 years of operation.
““the most important thing about prehistoric humans is that they were insignificant animals.”
created in the foundation of the United States were carefully designed, not to protect the masses from the elites, but the elites from the masses.
“Confucianism, like Taoism, is less concerned with finding the truth than with finding the Tao – the Way – to live in the world.”
Be like a child, or like a super-human who frees oneself from the chaining social norms.
You should follow your will to power, a concept related to achievement and ambition,
