Metaverse is going against digitisation trend

 I wanted to post this idea earlier, but the news that Meta's share price dropped, determined to do it.

https://youtu.be/CRE6SqdranY

First digitisation appeared in Summer when a scribe used some simbols to describe the reality of a flock of sheeps.

The reality of the flick was simplified into symbols and numbers for tax purposes.

Since then we simplified our universe using ecuations to describe, stars and atoms 

Even AI algorithm are some simplifiers, who filter out useless information.

Metaverse is trying something different, it tries to build a reality based on abstraction.

From basic information to make useless information.

Business don't like this. Already the work force is jammed with useless information.

They want seamless simple process.

General public? Maybe it will cool for a while, but they will get bored. An virtual apple is unidimensional, beside visual information you can't smell it,taste it.

It doesn't trigger emotion, and it is generic.

North Korea inhabitants think they are free?

 I argued in a previous post that people are not born free and they will never be free.

How the desire of freedom appears?

If everyone is in chains then they will consider themselves to be slaves ?

I think the desire for freedom appears when you see other options.

When serfs saw that commoners like them: city dwellers, had more options, they wanted them too, and they started to want be free.

So long only a elite separated by blood, had more rights like them, they didn't want freedom, because their options were limited at birth. 

As in apartheid system, the ban of intermarriage between classes, kept the privileges.

So long you couldn't obtain those options not even by marriage, you didn't want them, you didn't have hink of them and and ceased to exist in your mind. 

With extra options ceasing to be exist, you will be content, happy, and you will think you are free.

The generations born in serfdom an slavery will inherit the set of options from their parents, and up to a point they will consider themselves free. 

Till they want an option not available to their class. Like marrying a free woman/man. Then they will see an option that they want and they can't have and they will demand freedom.

2008 crisis didn't pool people on the streets of west, as it is pooling now the anti COVID restrictions campaign, because people didn't see as an option to held responsible the financial elite. 

Now with restrictions people see as an option to go to restaurant. It is an option that exist and I they can have it so they demand their "freedoms".

So people of NK consider themselves free because they don't see other options, and the few options that they have are monopolized by a narrow party elite.

Solidarity with Afghanistan

 I watched at BBC how the situation deteriorates, children are starving. Afterwards an advertisement for Neom, the multimillion dollar projects from Saudi Arabia appeared.

Why Saudi or other Gulf states don't help their Muslim brothers?

Why China doesn't step in? They are close. They declare that they want to help people in Africa. Why not aiding someone closer?

Why the infidels from West have to step in?

Why the evil capitalists have to supply food and medicine for the poor?

Talibans want 10 bln $ froze in foreign account. But we don't have any guarantee that they don't use it for buying arms 

Money must be used by charity direct for afghans.

Talibans for start they should provide rights for women.

They can respect their Islamic law and offer women a chance to education and work. If they want.

They can make women only schools. They existed 200 yr ago in Europe.

They can make firms and departments with women only.

In textile industry anyway 90% of workforce is women.

Buy,buy,buy

 A new SARS covid2 variant was discovered in South Africa. The media outlets rushed to declare that is more deadly, despite having no proof yet.

When Wuhan virus was discovered, based on the death rate of pacients, medical world believed that the death rate is 30%.Later when they did a serological study in Italy, they discovered a lot of unsymptomatic pacients, and the death rate was adjusted to 1-2%.

SARS covid 2 is less deadly than SARS covid 1, why we should expect that this new variant is deadlier?

Passing through a population a virus becomes less deadlier because variants who keep their hosts alive more time spread more.

Why it should be different?

Why media outlets who don't have advertising and subscriptions say that the SA variant is deadlier?

Because it is easier to make money from market manipulation than selling good information?

I wouldn't sell anything till real data comes out.

The stupid people: the fifth column of every state

 Background: when Franco besiged Madrid he said that it had 5 columns attacking Madrid: one from north, one from south, one from west, one from east and one from within city. This was the fifth column the people from inside.

In my opinion people are stupid if they have all the information necessary, yet they take a decision that hurts them and maybe others.

Medieval peasants believed that earth was flat because they were ignorant.

Flat earthers believe the same thing but they have a lot of contrary information, so they are stupid.

It seems that access to information didn't cured the stupidity.

In middle ages, the stupid believed the priest or the monarch. Then in modern time, he read the papers from within country, or listen to state radio and TV. The stupid was the backbone of the state, he supported anything that government said, and it was ready to die for fatherland.

Now with advent of satellite communications and internet, the ideas of the stupid are more diverse, access to foreign news gives him a veneer of sofistication, he is influenced more by outside forces and he/she can be used against his state and his community 

From an asset, stupid became a liability.

Countries who learn their citizens to think critically and invest in education will have a better chance of surviving.

De ce nu mă mai interesează politica din Romania

 A fi interesat de situația politică din România, ca de exemplu ce guvern vom avea e ca si cum ai ghici sexul copilului dintr-o relație incestuoasă: nu contează, deoarece copilul oricum se va naște cu handicap.

Competiția nu e la vedere, plenarele, congresele, ședințele legiferează ce s-au decis în secret, in urma unor înțelegeri și în urma unor santajuri.

New problems and new solutions

 I noticed that most successful solutions, either solve an old problem with new technology ( car solves the old problem of transportation) or new problem with old technologies ( lithography was used for the new problem of circuit boards)

Usually if you use new technologies to new problems you fail because you don't understand either. 

I am wonder if covid is a new problem or old, and if we must use old technologies or new.

It was new virus so the old technology of quarantine worked.

Once the virus is known, the problem is old and we can use new vaccination technologies, or medicines.

But maybe the medical field is different? And for new diseases, new medicine should be tried?

In 18 century they have the old technology of blood letting, which they applied to every new disease. It was an old solution to an old problem.From our stand point it was better to try something else.

The problem with blood letting was that they didn't had data to see how effective it is. If they could see under 50% efficacy, they could have abandoned it.

The other problem was that they didn't know much of diseases. They could notice common symptoms like fever, but they could not know if it was a virus or bacteria.

They could guess the transmission pathway, like John Snow did with cholera, but nothing more.

What they could do was to see efficacy of treatments, but at the time the only exchange of information was through journal and post. If they had internet they could have progressed faster.

So my advice is to tack between knowing you problem, and searching for a solution.

Knowing your solutions is easier and can be done beforehand, track your results to see the limits of your solutions, to know when to give up to them. But don't be very attached to your solutions. I know mathematicians and engineers who call their solutions, their babies. Sometimes you have to throw you solution overboard. You don't do this with your baby, do you?

Knowing you problem is harder, because your information rate is limited by the number is experiments you can do and what you can measure. IT is privileged, you can make tausend of experiments in a day and measure everything, medicine is  worse because you can't do experimts easily, and you can't measure everything.

Also data is scattered, and you must collect it. Do keep in touch with many people from your field.

The best way of understanding a new problem was to model it mathematically and solved on the computer, and compare it with reality. To solve it in silicon.

So IT and mathematical literacy is a must.

During this pandemic a mathematical simulation has shown with 2 months before hand that corona virus produces blood cloths.