It's cool how aviation technology changed the topology of such networks.

Yes, I love that track! I didn't come to my mind in our previous discussion. (Some serious The Rah band – "Clouds Across the Moon" vibes there.)

"When all hope is gone, there is no reason for pessimism."
Aki Kaurismäki

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White chocolate is made of cacao 😝 Brown white chocolate just keeps more of the unsophisticated parts of it

IMO White chocolate is the real thing; the other thing should be called "brown white chocolate."

Another theme is the revolutionary change LLM chatbots brought about. The shift from the big-data era of AI as super-human predictors to AI as human simulacra. I.e., from a mainstream science viewpoint, a change to a methodologically more familiar ground.

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The main theme is how entwined we are with the technology we use to study ourselves—how readily we accept replicas of ourselves and our environment as tokens of scientific insight.

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Yes! Glieck's "Chaos" is not the only book that is kinda built around a bunch of color plates of the Mandelbrot set in the middle. For good reasons, of course, just the idea that one can enjoy a picture by keeping zooming in on it still blows my mind.

That's a great question. Is there any Swedish stadspop? This is the closest I can think of, but not really spot on: open.spotify.com/track/64ZJ20...

Ah, now I saw what I wrote about Prigogine's Exploring Complexity. Well, that was a bit ill-informed and is now updated (including the date). Thanks for the heads up.

Books from that decade had a pioneering spirit that there was no reason for later ones to have (and if they did, it feels a bit contrived).

Order Out of Chaos comes out of a different intellectual tradition / hype cycle, even if some complexity writers assimilated it petterhol.me/2024/01/24/d...

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