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We can organize these observations into what I call the law of accelerating returns as follows:Evolution applies positive feedback in that the more capable methods resulting from one stage of evolutionary progress are used to create the next stage. Over time, the “order” of the information embedded in the evolutionary process (i.e., the measure of ... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Daniel recalls that he first learned from Tyler this question for prospective hires: “What is it you do to practice that is analogous to how a pianist practices scales?”
Daniel Gross • Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World
We can identify 3 phases in how human beings as individuals and groups operate together strategically.
Jordan Hall • The Game of Thrones | Deep Code Experiment: Episode 4
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
... See moreW. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
Idea machines are not new, but the form in which they appear is changing. For most of the 20th century, the home for idea machines was foundations, first popularized by John D. Rockefeller in the 1910s.
Nadia Asparouhova • Idea Machines
Before considering further the implications of the Singularity, let’s examine the wide range of technologies that are subject to the law of accelerating returns. Given that the electrons have less distance to travel, the circuits also run twice as fast, providing an overall quadrupling of computational power. After sixty years of devoted service, M... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
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