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#40 — Complexity & Stupidity

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Is There a Root Concept of Information?

i think there are many senses in which we use this term, and not of them are commensurable. It's sometimes what i call the m cubed mahem a, that is, m raids to the three maham. The concept has an beautiful, scientific, storied history starting with essentially the birth of the field that we now call statistical mechanics. And he created, in the 18 70 a theory called the theorem a, where he essentially had in mind lots of little billiard balls bumping into each other chaotically.

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