Epstein Secrets

he reproducible phenomena of Nature. Suppose certain external constraints act on a system. Examples include the solar radiation input at the top of Earth's atmosphere, the temperature gradient imposed across a Bonard convection cell, the velocity gradient imposed across a sheared fluid layer, or the f

entropy and Jaynes generalisation of the maximum entropy approach as a general recipe for statistical inference. In Dewar's words: "Jaynes saw the Gibbs algorithm as a completely general recipe for statistical inference in the face of insufficient information (MAXENT), with useful applications throug

hinkers, such as Francis Heylighen, believe that engineering AGI systems is at best a peripheral endeavor in the development of novel intelligence on Earth, because the real story is the developing Global Brain [Iley07, Goe01] — the composite, self-organizing informa- tion system comprising humans, compu

le 12.1, these are correlated to the stages of moral development, but also map onto Piagetian models of cognitive development (as pointed out e.g. by Gibbs [Gib78], who presents a modification/interpretation of Kohlberg’s ideas intended to align them more closely with Piaget’s). Interpersonal outlook can

ich was wild with metaphorical imagery: circular tubes full of fire, small holes through which celestial fire was visible as stars, and hemispherical Earth riding on turtleback. It was this wild modeling strategy, not Babylonian extrapolation, that jolted Eratosthenes (276- 194 BC) to perform one of the

a particular way. He analyzed the world as continuous variables, as he explains in chapter 1 along with a nod to thermodynamics through an overlay of Gibbs statistics. He also shoehorns in a weak and unconvincing model of information as message-passing between and among both physical and biological entit

ich was wild with metaphorical imagery: circular tubes full of fire, small holes through which celestial fire was visible as stars, and hemispherical Earth riding on turtleback. It was this wild modeling strategy, not Babylonian extrapolation, that jolted Eratosthenes (276- 194 BC) to perform one of the

a particular way. He analyzed the world as continuous variables, as he explains in chapter 1 along with a nod to thermodynamics through an overlay of Gibbs statistics. He also shoehorns in a weak and unconvincing model of information as message-passing between and among both physical and biological entit