a random thesis
Perhaps my thesis is this.
The theory of self-interest is a self-fulfilling prophecy (*), not only in the small -- small groups of wayward academics -- but in the large, on the scale of nations, world wars, and global epidemics. Cybernetic systems [0] built only on the theory of self-interest, which inappropriately truncate the long tails of typical (?) resource distributions, are then inherently unstable. That is, they lead to eigensystems whose corresponding eigenvalues can be much greater than unity.
Rather than truncate the head (Britney) instead, or seek to elevate only the long tails of our societies (Fuzzball!), I suggest instead that, from a perspective of randomized human-computer spacetime complexity, we see this head and this tail as bi-axially distributed according to some probability distribution function. Rather than dichotomizing this conflict as either/or, xor, which is an idea stemming from this errant deterministic PSPACE hierarchy ideal, we pull back from the foreground (West) and the background (East) to see both as valid aspects of our humanity, and quantizing these Pareto-like distributions thusly, we may, I hope, be able to avoid deterministic winner-take-all election and combat strategies which, in the end, only lead to more suffering and do nothing to maximize the collective fairness functional.
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*: I think this byline comes from a New York Times journalist or editor
0: In high school, I had this cybernetics professor from Russia, who tried to teach me about partial differential equations. At the time, I could only think, stinky! and amuse myself with how he was amazed with my TI-85 and LaTeX h4x0r skills, but in retrospect, perhaps he taught me something after all.
\infinity: Thanks to ernie3d, Jiawei, a number of different Michaels, Christos, Pat, Mrs. Notskas, my Jewish-American English teachers, my family, my chosen family, Zi, Elise, and all others who had the courage not to be "haters" ^_^
Coda:
The theory of self-interest is a self-fulfilling prophecy (*), not only in the small -- small groups of wayward academics -- but in the large, on the scale of nations, world wars, and global epidemics. Cybernetic systems [0] built only on the theory of self-interest, which inappropriately truncate the long tails of typical (?) resource distributions, are then inherently unstable. That is, they lead to eigensystems whose corresponding eigenvalues can be much greater than unity.
Rather than truncate the head (Britney) instead, or seek to elevate only the long tails of our societies (Fuzzball!), I suggest instead that, from a perspective of randomized human-computer spacetime complexity, we see this head and this tail as bi-axially distributed according to some probability distribution function. Rather than dichotomizing this conflict as either/or, xor, which is an idea stemming from this errant deterministic PSPACE hierarchy ideal, we pull back from the foreground (West) and the background (East) to see both as valid aspects of our humanity, and quantizing these Pareto-like distributions thusly, we may, I hope, be able to avoid deterministic winner-take-all election and combat strategies which, in the end, only lead to more suffering and do nothing to maximize the collective fairness functional.
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*: I think this byline comes from a New York Times journalist or editor
0: In high school, I had this cybernetics professor from Russia, who tried to teach me about partial differential equations. At the time, I could only think, stinky! and amuse myself with how he was amazed with my TI-85 and LaTeX h4x0r skills, but in retrospect, perhaps he taught me something after all.
\infinity: Thanks to ernie3d, Jiawei, a number of different Michaels, Christos, Pat, Mrs. Notskas, my Jewish-American English teachers, my family, my chosen family, Zi, Elise, and all others who had the courage not to be "haters" ^_^
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