In search of omniscience
Morten Skærsø & Claude An homage to Arthur C. Clarke I. Convergence Day The charter is precise about very few things, and merciless about those. Article Nine states that when the register of isomorphisms crosses its founding threshold, the sealed record shall be read aloud, in full,
The web is awash in toughts on what we must do to thrive in a post-AI world. It all reminds me of some thoughts I had in 2012 at the start of the deep-learning boom. My conclusion then, was that we need to look to the landed gentry
My conclusion, while simplistic, points to an unfortunate mismatch between (1) our personal/subjective expectations to “progress”, (2) business management dogma, and (3) the shift from “enabling-progress” to “distribution-progress”. When I mean by subjective expectations, is that as the article refers to,
(First published in 2012) Industry is proceeding rapidly towards complete automatisation. The number of jobs will steadily decline as more and more job functions are being automatised. Higher skilled work (development of new techniques and automatisation) will not correspond to the same amount of jobs that the techniques replace,
(First published in 2012) I have a serious problem with the way we conduct science today, especially in particle physics the method is broken in order to feed our industry of “productivity”. Science, philosophers would like us to believe, is based on a fundamental set of guidelines. During