Sunday, December 20, 2020

how much money someone is worth vs how much money someone has

 They are not the same thing. Marc Zuckerberg is worth billions of dollars but he doesn't have billions of dollars. He has shares he could sell to convert to money but he doesn't have the money. It is incorrect to say he has that money. So if poor people are missing money, where is it? The government has it. When the government prints money it makes money for itself. If poor people are missing money look there.

Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Free will

 We have free will if our choices cannot be calculated ahead of time. If the universe is uncountably infinite then perforce we have free will. This can be seen because calculated means there exists a Turing machine that produces the desired result. A Turing machine cannot calculate the uncountable infinite because there is at most a countably finite number of Turing machines. 

Tuesday, November 3, 2020

i heard someone say vote to make your voice heard

 Let's look at the design of the system from an information theoretic perspective. Say there are N candidates. My vote will be to select one of them. How many bits of information are in that. log base-2 of N bits. So if there are 4 candidates, my vote would be 2 bits of information. That is the loudness of my voice when I vote. Two bits of information. If I were speaking English, I could not say a single word without exceeding two bits of information.

Friday, October 23, 2020

My hypothesis on why bad people win power.

If you are good you collect power and use that to help other people. If you are bad you collect power to use to gain more power and only do minimal helping of others. The good person will have to obtain more power to fight the bad person than the bad person needs. This gives the bad person the advantage.

Claim: Criminals are an evolutionary advantage for society.

 

Proof by contradiction. Image a society that never had criminals. They would have no police or legal system. They would have no experience using violence to control others. If such a society met another society that had criminals they would be taken over because they would have no institutions for applying violence. So criminals help societies survive.

Saturday, August 1, 2020

Saturday, July 18, 2020

different model for democracy

We still vote for people to represent us. They go and propose laws to be passed. Same as usual. The difference is when the laws are voted on they don't vote for us. We vote directly on the laws proposed.

Friday, May 22, 2020

definition of science

I am sick of people calling things science that are not. How about this for a definition of science

A statement is called a scientific fact iif

1. It it proven using the scientific method.
or
2. It is proven from scientific facts using first order predicate logic.

Science is the set of all scientific facts.

statement with may in them

Any statement with may means the probability of event X is greater than zero and less that one. So the converse statement is also true. For example, this headline

"Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing To Reopen America May Be Bots"

can be also written as

"Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing To Reopen America May Not Be Bots"

So both statements can be true at the same time. This is backed up by math.

We know from probability theory that for all events E

  p(E) + p(~E) = 1.0

The first headline means 0 < P(E) < 1.0. From these two facts we can deduce in FOPL that

0 < P(~E) < 1.0.

That is what the second second means logically. QED