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user-inactivated  ·  4323 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ask Hubski: Do you (or have you) work(ed) in research? If so, please read on...

Since you're a social scientist, do you know of any other theories that could help explain society quantitatively...? Maybe some sort of game theory that predicts other objectives...or something? I dunno. In doing some research, I found http://dialectics.org/dialectics/Welcome.html which appears to sort of explain some aspects of society...but it looks like Marxist gibberish...though there could be a pearl in there.





JakobVirgil  ·  4323 days ago  ·  link  ·  

every link on that that I clicked went to the apple page.

user-inactivated  ·  4323 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Strange. Well there's this: http://dialectics.org/dialectics/Applications.html, http://dialectics.org/dialectics/Primer.html, and http://dialectics.org/dialectics/Briefs.html, which all appear to explain their "psychohistorical dialectics". By apple page, you mean apple.com?

JakobVirgil  ·  4320 days ago  ·  link  ·  

sorry I dropped the ball on this but I have a hard time thinking there is anything to Hegel or any kind of "scientific" history Marxism and the singularity included.

user-inactivated  ·  4319 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hmm okay. It seemed kind of conspiracy-ish, but I so want to understand history in a mathematical way!

JakobVirgil  ·  4319 days ago  ·  link  ·  

here is one for you history like evolution is a distributed solver for a min-max problem on system of non-linear differential equations with 100 billion dimensions <-not hyperbole but prolly an underestimation. this is the punchline like in evolution these solvers are really shit at solving min-max and constantly get stuck in local mins and maxs. even more so in history.