Evolutionary Biology and the Fitness Landscape

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In complex systems research and also in evolutionary biology a fitness landscape is you have some space of all possible choices. I think that Elon Musk is in some sense very sincere about his care for humanity in the earth but he's just not been very good at it in his late phase what's going on now. SPF Sam Bankman Freed and the FTX crypto exchange where unlike Twitter how can you be drawn in to help with this young guy who had 26 billion dollars? It seems very clear that there outright fraud going on in a lot of ways and just like Elon Musk turns out to be you know an evil genius.

Welcome to that beloved Mindscape annual tradition, the Holiday Message. An opportunity for a quicker and less-well-thought-out solo episode to round off another year. Ironically, this year the theme is the importance of slowing down and thinking things out really well! Illustrated by two things that have been on my mind: a couple of internet/tech kerfuffles (Elon Musk buying Twitter, Sam Bankman-Fried and the collapse of FTX), and the distinction between foundations of physics and “regular” physics. See if you can dimly perceive the thread that ties them together.

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