Verge Override
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- The Techno-Optimist Manifesto | Andreessen Horowitz34 savers
- Ben Hunt on X: "From January 2022, with a new introduction to reflect yesterday's events. Very much worth your time to read today. The motte-and-bailey linguistic technique is how our anger at the Other Party is stoked to create political polarization. https://t.co/5NcQF2RfCt" / X1 savers
- Episodes — Politics In Question1 savers
- Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes9 savers
- Introducing Infinitism – Ryan Shea1 savers
- Claude Shannon4 savers
- Curius / Onboarding2621 savers
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We believe in what the Greeks called eudaimonia through arete – flourishing through excellence.
The Techno-Optimist Manifesto | Andreessen HorowitzWhile not Utopian, we believe in what Brad DeLong terms “slouching toward Utopia” – doing the best fallen humanity can do, making things better as we go.
The Techno-Optimist Manifesto | Andreessen HorowitzInformation theory's fundamental contribution to natural language processing and computational linguistics was further established in 1951, in his article "Prediction and Entropy of Printed English", showing upper and lower bounds of entropy on the statistics of English – giving a statistical foundation to language analysis. In addition, he proved that treating space as the 27th letter of the alphabet actually lowers uncertainty in written language, providing a clear quantifiable link between cultural practice and probabilistic cognition.
Claude ShannonWhat he’s really done is he’s created this immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain of layers and layers and layers of files of information that he can draw back on now for more than 70 years worth of data.
Curius / Onboarding