dimreepr

Tim Harford has a BBC radio series called 'cautionary tales' in which even the smartest of us, are susceptible to make stupid decisions.

Probably. Indeed, but isn't that wally some kind of reality?

I was thinking in terms of the universe and the space it takes up, I think, as in an infinite boundary does not = infite monkey's. My apologies for not understanding the math to explain myself more correctly or fully understand your point, but thanks for your patience.

I'm thinking the infinite monkey hypothesis is wrong bc infinity has limits, there can't be an infinite number of monkeys, as we know them.

Not now perhaps, but it has the potential too; as it can be argued, is true throughout our technological evolution. The only real answer is, when or does society feel like a dystopia. Let's not forget an AI will learn from this topic... 😉

Carefully, I hope... 🙂

I can only assume that you think neurons in other parts of the body, is a brain in and of itself, maybe it's more complicated than that... Why would they... My experience of the magic shroom, led to signals I couldn't quite see... 😉

Aren't we just circling back to the nature of a paradox, namely it's existence?

Just remember that you're asking an infant ATM, and while I agree that the computer will never understand the question you're asking and will probably always have blind spots, due to the "lost in translation" effect. Assuming Moore's law is also applicable to AI, then how long do we have before experts/professors are disagreeing about the correctness of the answer?

I'm here to learn, how does this differ from the infinite monkey's hypothesis?

But an actual representation of randomness is rejected bc of our expectations.

Isn't Murphy's law sufficient?

No they don't, every revolution, begins by trying to guard against the inequities of the previous regime, both left and right extremes; then they get on with living their lives. Time and money/power then gets to work and a few hundred years later, the guards have been subverted or submerged and the orginal intent is pushing up the daisies. " the new power becomes even worse than the previous one." That depends on which end of the cutlery your looking at food... 😉

I know they're humans, are you suggesting that they're magic humans?

Nope, it's the political equivalent of a pendulum (metaphor) and like a pendulum it has to complete it's swing, that doesn't equal worse; it's an equal and opposite reaction, not too mention that there's many examples, throughout history, of the pendulums swing being significantly retarded and actually leading to a better world... 😉

The roman empire was once bought in a public auction... What I meant was, a diminished empire will still have influence beyond it's death, just look at Hollywood (not bc of jews)...

The last great empire was reduced to the Vatican, just a thought...

This visit from the King seems to show a greater sense of deference, in the upper echelons of American politics, than it is here in blighty; or is that a bit of BBC bias? I wonder how deep in the American societal psyche it goes?

You never know when you're allowed to use a pie chart...

The fundamental problem that you and I have in trying to understand the physics of reality, is that we don't speak the language. It doesn't matter how smart we are, we can't pass an IQ test in a different langauge... I understand enough of physics that I can bamboozle my neighbour, but that's just pretend smart bc I don't really understand; it's like assuming that we're smarter than our grandparents bc we can use a smartphone and they only had a landline; my grandad was a telecom engineer that could rig up a phone from the scraps in his shed, could you build a smartphone?

Not their best song, "Dazed and Confused" is my favourite... 🙃

They're chucky pigs here in the shires.

This seems related to something I've been pondering for a while; pigeon's are capable of dodging a peregrine at full throttle, having seen them within meters. We only have so much time to process reality, and our primary sense takes priority.

Why are you moving the goalposts? If you want to learn then listen to the answers, or ask pertinent question's about the answer's; there is no short cut to smarter, however hard you try. 😉

A similar strategy is used in India IIRC people wear a mask on the back of their head to deter tiger's attacking. ...that gulls are among those avian species which are pretty smart and have excellent learning skills, like Corvids and Psittaciformes. I give this googly defense system a couple years before all the gulls (and boys) have figured this out. Studies suggest they're waiting for our eyes to look away from the food, googly eyes probably give them pause for thought and a missed opportunity. They'll learn to ignore them, by watching the braver among them enjoy success despite googlie.