What computer science cannot do or know is not worth doing or knowing. With one important modifier.
Only full-spectrum quantum computers can model the chaos of weather systems and cosmic inflation physics and Black Hole dynamics.
In the early 1700s, a teenaged David Hume became captivated by the moral philosophy of the Stoics. Not satisfied simply to improve his intellect by consuming the works of Cicero, Seneca, and Plutarch, he determined also to put their teachings into practice — to follow their instructions about how to achieve happiness through the mastery of emotion and the honing of virtue. And so he embarked upon training his mind, living simply and exercising rigid self-restraint, engaging in deep introspection, and otherwise seeking to cultivate his ability to reason such that it would inure him to the pains and pleasures of life on earth.
As he reported in a lengthy retrospective missive in the mid-1730s, this experiment not only cured him of his attraction to ancient moral philosophy, but also convinced him that the Stoics’ theory of human nature was bollocks. He had not emerged happier or more virtuous, as had been the promise. The victory of the rational over the emotional, in his experience, was Pyrrhic.
This realization awoke in Hume the conviction that there was a need for a new theory of human nature, one on which a philosophy of how to live well could be built — a philosophy that, contrary to Stoicism, did not believe that happiness required negating corporeal sensations and internal passions, but that instead gave them their due. And so he set about to produce a “science of man.”
Science and democracy came down to us from the Greeks who invented them thousands of years before our stupid religious calender was imposed on us by force. The two ideas cling together and are so tightly knit an asymptotic force appears the minute brute force is applied to seperate them. That internal force is proportional to the force applied. Reactionaries and conformist cowards attacked democrats and democracy for centuries. Now its the turn of anarchists and cryptoanarchy. One united humanity , one meshnet and one world cryptoanarchist management will soon send them packing. Subito. And may their creepy mono-God go with them.
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