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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

Given a defined “goal”, an AI can automatically work towards achieving it. Most of our existing intuition about “machinery” and “automation” comes from a kind of “clockwork” view of engineering—in which we specifically build systems component by component to achieve objectives we want. And that’s where we humans come in.

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Charting a Course for “Complexity”: Metamodeling, Ruliology and More

Stephen Wolfram

But it really wasn’t physics, or computer science, or math, or biology, or economics, or any known field. And it’s one that can “mine” the specific modeling achievements of work on complexity and bring them to a broader and more foundational level. In some ways, ruliology is like natural science.

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How Inevitable Is the Concept of Numbers?

Stephen Wolfram

How do we achieve this? Let’s say that we’re trying to achieve the objective of having an efficient transportation system for carrying people around. But as another example of how this can play out, consider economic systems. But are “numerical prices” the only possible setup for an economic system?

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The Concept of the Ruliad

Stephen Wolfram

The global structures of metamathematics , economics , linguistics and evolutionary biology seem likely to provide examples—and in each case we can expect that at the core is the ruliad, with its unique structure. And this is where our pieces of “falsifiable natural science” come in.

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

But, first and foremost, the story of the Second Law is the story of a great intellectual achievement of the mid-19th century. There’s a discussion about H for systems that interact, and how there’s an equilibrium value achieved. It’s exciting now, of course, to be able to use the latest 21st-century ideas to take another step.

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Urban farming for urban families

Futurum

Food insecurity is a longstanding global problem that is tied to political, economic and social inequalities and inequities. The liberal arts consist of the natural sciences, like biology, ecology and neuroscience, formal sciences, like physics and maths, social sciences, and the humanities.

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Why electoral systems matter for democracy

Futurum

Collaboration “Unlike in natural sciences, teams of collaborators are usually smaller in political science,” says Damien. Pathway from school to political science • As well as political science, if it is available, Damien and André recommend taking economics, maths and psychology at school and post-16.