> I think this is the "closing the loop" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_loop#Open-loop_and_clo... ) moment for coding AI.

> All pieces are there, we just need to decide to do it.

Another silver bullet.

There is a huge gap in performance and reliability in control systems between open-loop and closed-loop.

You've got to bite the bullet at one point and make the transition from open-loop to closed-loop. There is a compute cost associated to it, and there is also a tuning cost, so it's not all silver lining.

I see a lot of parallels in Korean (and other eastern countries) and Indian social expectations.

While Korea has developed economically and has become a modern industrialized country all of it's social mores and expectations are rooted in it's feudal agricultural past.

I think that similar situation will happen in India as well in next 20 years.

Maybe Western modern industrialized, post-industrialized society needs a individualistic culture as well and does not harmonize well with society whose values are derived from the older feudal, gerontocratic agricultural society.

I have a feeling that Megalopolis is going to end up as one the great cult classics.

Vishy Anand resigning was an absolute GM level move.

I would also recommend 1st chapter of "Principles Of Computer System Design: An Introduction - Saltzer & Kaashoek" for a more general discussion on complexity in digital system.

Good to know that there are books addressing this as well. I have the impression that the topic of complexity is not discussed enough, neither in the academia nor in the private sector.

The beetle fell into a hole and came out the otherside.

Same side. The frog can be modelled as a torus for purposes of this beetle's navigation.

Well then, we're all just talking donuts that absolutely ruin perfectly good food.

Surely this is the humor behind the "spherical cow" [1] metaphor for scientific oversimplification. Obviously a real cow isn't a sphere. It's a torus.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow

Kafka was not a famous writer at all or got rich due to his writing.

And he asked a friend to destroy all of his writings after his death.

50 Years is too long a time period to make any kind of useful prediction.

> Physics has repeatedly had to tame infinities by elaborate tricks, or by eliminating them entirely

or In case of black holes by actually interpreting infinity as a real place in the universe.

If I were a betting man I'd say black holes have no singularity, but rather a core of extremely dense exotic matter (probably formed from top/bottom quarks) which we haven't detected because it decays quickly under less extreme circumstances.

I think it’s true that once an event horizon forms no physical force (known or hypothetical) can stop a singularity forming.

There may be some form of very dense matter that stops large stars from collapsing to the point where an event horizon forms in the first place, but that doesn’t seem to apply to super massive black holes.

For super massive black holes the event horizon grows too fast.

Singularities are a deficiency in GR, they don't really exist.

Malicious people know about the Hanlon's razor and ready to use it as an excuse if they get caught.