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“Information can be considered as order wrenched from disorder.”
James Gleick • The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
As intelligence saturates the matter and energy available to it, it turns dumb matter into smart matter. Perhaps what I should say is that intelligence is more powerful than cosmology. That is, once matter evolves into smart matter (matter fully saturated with intelligence), it can manipulate matter and energy to do whatever it wants. This perspect... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
But a human brain is a flawed lens that can understand its own flaws—its systematic errors, its biases—and apply second-order corrections to them.
Eliezer Yudkowsky • Rationality
valid.
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
universo é governado por uma série de leis racionais que podemos descobrir e compreender.
Stephen Hawking • Uma breve história do tempo (Portuguese Edition)
Contrary to the naive view, information isn’t the raw material of truth, and human information networks aren’t geared only to discover the truth. But contrary to the populist view, information isn’t just a weapon, either. Rather, to survive and flourish, every human information network needs to do two things simultaneously: discover truth and creat
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
A NOTE ON TRUTH