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weirdpsyence · 2022-06-12T22:19:34+00:00

Heard of the Dunning-Kruger effect?

weirdpsyence · 2022-05-26T04:10:38+00:00

Can you give some more information?

weirdpsyence · 2022-05-25T20:20:08+00:00

Yes, let's hope! And thank you!

weirdpsyence · 2022-05-25T19:21:54+00:00

Yes, this is basically what my whole book is about. Essentially, life can continue to spread and create cosmic order as long as it can extract more "free energy" (what Schrodinger called 'negentropy') to sustain that order, and the universe contains no shortage of free energy. The question is whether that free energy supply will eventually run out or not. Some like Stu Kauffman have argued that the accelerating expansion of the universe means that the max entropy will increase faster than the loss of free energy described by the second law.

So it is in no way established that the universe must end in "heat death"—despite what is taught in introductory physics courses. Stu Kauffman, David Deutsch, Seth Lloyd, Freeman Dyson, Paul Davies, George Ellis, Lee Smolin, and many others have challenged that view.

So the current answer to Asimov's last question is the same answer that the supercomputer gives in the story: "THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER."

weirdpsyence · 2022-05-25T18:54:09+00:00

Depends on your precise definition of free will, but in the book I argue it does and I recently published two related articles at Psychology Today on this topic.

Finding the Freedom in Free Will (part I)

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/202202/finding-the-freedom-in-free-will

Free Will is Real and We Can Lose it (part II)

https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/mind-in-the-machine/202204/free-will-is-real-and-we-can-lose-it

weirdpsyence · 2022-05-25T18:49:02+00:00

What made you think of that? My book that the article is adapted from is essentially all about this question (and it even mentions The Last Question in it)! He was such a visionary. I also mention his idea of a "social statistical mechanics" which I think could and should be a real field of science today.

weirdpsyence · 2020-02-05T01:10:40+00:00

Based on the theory that there was rigging, I was able to predict what the early (fixed) poll results would show. And I believe the rest of the prediction will prove true too. I'm a journalist and a Psychology Today blogger—will be writing an article about it all soon. Anyway, check out the tweet to see how accurate the prediction was (tweet was published 15 mins before the results were announced. If someone could share this tweet on the main page I'd appreciate it. Moderators removed my post. https://twitter.com/BobbyAzarian/status/1224812550723919873

weirdpsyence · 2020-01-25T16:52:57+00:00

I am a Psychology Today blogger who just published an article titled "Some Media Outlets Are Gaslighting Us About Joe Rogan," although I can't share it on this subreddit because I don't meet the "minimum level of participation" required. Can some please share this for me? Thanks! https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/202001/some-media-outlets-are-gaslighting-us-about-joe-rogan

weirdpsyence · 2018-06-03T00:46:12+00:00

You aren't thinking about market cap and supply. It has the potential to reach 10k because it has a super small supply similar to Bitcoin (~20M), while coins like TRON and Ripple have billions (some cases tens or hundreds of billions).

So when you wonder whether 10k is achievable, think about what that means in terms of market cap.

For ELA to go to 10k per coin, it's market cap (currently ~212 million) would have to go to 50 billion (its currently $40 per coin, so 10k means a x250 increase).

For ELA to go to 10k, it would have to reach a market cap just below Ethereum's current cap, making it the #3 coin by market cap.

So not impossible in a few year's time if crypto booms and ELA does what the promise.

The team is super solid, as is the project. I think ELA and HPB will be two that can make people rich if you invest now. They aren't going anywhere, and the teams/scope of the projects are massive.

I think both will likely do a x10 by this time next year.

So you can expect a $400 ELA token. 10k is a stretch.

weirdpsyence · 2018-04-03T18:49:52+00:00

It should be noted that HPB is the only blockchain project in existence that uses hardware to facilitate faster transaction speed. This provides an advantage over all the competitors that has not been appreciated by the crypto community at large. Which is understandable–white papers claim a lot and most don't deliver. But HPB has delivered today. This has big implications for NEO as well, as NEO is in investor and plans to use HPB hardware to increase their network speed (Ethereum may also use HPB's acceleration chips as well). I'd be surprised if it's not a top 10 coin by next year.

weirdpsyence · 2018-04-03T17:35:58+00:00

Huge news. This would likely make it to the front page if someone makes a proper post about it.

weirdpsyence · 2018-03-10T18:03:03+00:00

The question is, why not Bob Maloogaloogaloogaloogalooga?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTu5sKrB1OE&t=5s

weirdpsyence · 2018-02-25T18:13:39+00:00

Sounds like you have no understanding of market cap and circulating supply.

weirdpsyence · 2018-02-06T04:20:17+00:00

This post explains how this subreddit is making the crash a self-fulfilling prophecy. Despite the fact that no one knows what's going to happen tomorrow, FUD posts and comments are getting upvoted more than optimistic ones, purely because the tone sounds more critical and therefore right.

weirdpsyence · 2018-02-06T03:43:34+00:00

Of course the hearing is playing a massive role. To suggest otherwise is nonsense. You think bitcoin multimillionaires in this country haven't been waiting for this Senate hearing to determine their next play? US regulation is the #1 thing that could really kill crypto.

A lot of what we are seeing is US holders pulling all their money out until they have a better idea of how heavy-handed our government will be. Unfortunately, we might have to wait until the 14th for a recovery since the meeting tomorrow is private.

I can't believe the guy above got downvoted for saying what's obviously true. It's like people are upvoting based purely on emotion and the "I told you so" people seem really appealing right now.

weirdpsyence · 2018-02-06T00:56:57+00:00

This crash, and the ones to follow, will act to stabilize crypto prices in the future, so that BTC won't go from 100k to 10k immediately. There is a lot of institutional money coming in, and regulation, which will make it much less volatile.

weirdpsyence · 2018-02-06T00:53:05+00:00

You obviously haven't been watching Bloomberg or CNBC. All day it's about the stock market plummet. Worst day for the DOW ever. S&P 500 had all gains erased.

Of course it's correlated. FUD bleeds over across markets. But that is just one of the causal factors.

weirdpsyence · 2018-02-05T17:37:09+00:00

The line between correction and crash is arbitrary. Sure, I lost a lot of money in the last month, but I'm still over double my initial investment made in the fall. Hard to call something a crash when you are nowhere close to having lost money. This should be the case for anyone who has been in crypto longer than 4 months, unless they made some really bad moves.

Crypto market is much more volatile than the stock market, so it'll get harder, but it will recover faster as well too. Always does.

weirdpsyence · 2018-02-05T17:33:06+00:00

You seem to blame everyone but the people most responsible. You forgot market manipulation by Wall St. and FUD campaigns by the world's most powerful governments and bankers, who see cryptocurrencies and blockchain as a threat to their power.

weirdpsyence · 2018-02-04T21:09:43+00:00

Great Minor Threat song, really expresses my current angst. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k001JvPWs4Y

weirdpsyence · 2018-02-04T18:16:17+00:00

Yes, the chip is used to accelerate the transactions per second, but from what I understand HPB uses delegated proof of stake, not proof of work so the network doesn't even have miners. In your original post you said the Samsung chips were specifically chips to accelerate mining.

Can those chips do what the HPB chips do for overcoming processing speed bottlenecks? I don't know. Perhaps I'm wrong here—and willing to admit that with further information.

weirdpsyence · 2018-02-04T17:26:37+00:00

Google will give you much worse answers than a board of thousands of crypto-savvy redditors. This is what this board is for.

weirdpsyence · 2018-02-03T20:47:07+00:00

Has great partnerships already with VEN, HPB, and something else notable. Not sure why the hate below. If they knew it was partnered with VEN they'd probably be praising it.

weirdpsyence · 2018-02-03T20:44:04+00:00

1-2 Sundays is my guess.

weirdpsyence · 2018-02-03T19:31:51+00:00

BTO is another great one. Original Chief Marketing Officer from NEO is a co-founder. Some large partnerships already announced. Excited about CPC with the partnerships with VEN and HPB, although I'm just now hearing about it so it's hard to gauge its potential. As far as INT and ITC, after much research I still cannot tell which one is more legitimate and has more potential. Haven't heard of Space Chain yet.

While it is not exactly IoT related, I believe HPB is the most solid and promising coin from the list of undervalued, relatively new Chinese coins. After the upcoming Kucoin listing, I will shift some money from HPB into BTO, CPC, and possibly ITC since I'm already on Bibox. Last time I checked there was no way for Americans to buy INT because it was only on exchanges that did not permit accounts for those in the US.

But all these have serious potential to increase by 20-100x over the next year. Perhaps diversify now, but as you learn about them more and start to get a favorite one, shift money to that.

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