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The only reason the media would ever cover such atrocities is because they are rare, and thus newsworthy. Drive-by shootings are never given the news coverage that mass shootings are given because they are common and thus "boring". The only hope we may have is for the average person to be jaded...

Thank you, ClaytonB, for your feedback. I haven't heard of David D. Friedman until now. A quick look-up shows that his father was Milton Friedman who I have seen videos of. I will look into the books Machinery of Freedom, and Law's Order that you have recommended (if I can find them for a...

This is what physicists do . Even if processing the vast number of variables involved in the behavior of each particle in the universe is effectively impossible, one can still derive some basic principles and approximations (rules of thumb) to guide us in our interaction with the universe...

So you are not open to it? Humans, and groups of humans, are physical, thermodynamic systems and as such are capable of carrying information. On some level information has to apply to human relations, or are we entirely exempt from such, aloof from physical reality? Maybe I'm a complete idiot...

I wonder what H. P. Lovecraft thinks about fractals.

Hello all. I would like to share a model that I have been developing that uses the language of math to describe liberty. I propose that liberty, among other values, can be defined as a form of information entropy, measured in information units. In particular, liberty can be defined as...