Ask HN: What is your 'Theory of Everything'?

[good_vibes]

I've been thinking a lot about scientific progress over the last 500 years and it blows my mind to think that Alan Turing was less than a century ago. Look where we are today. I wonder how all this science and technology will converge tomorrow and what life will be like by 2050.

[_m8fo]

All social problems stem from the fact that people believe it possible to be superior to one another. Once you get rid of this possibility, social problems, stemming from the "superiority problem" disappear. Utopia ensues.

[qwertythrowawe]

It is just your opinion that people cannot be superior to one another. Define any objective metric, and it is possible for one to be superior to another.

[kwellington]

Ideology has a genetic basis.

We are all combinations of the r and K gene sets. (there is no ideology which falls outside the political compass). Epigenetics will bring out ideology lacking in a society. The ideological dialectic is never-ending and the only way the human race survives.

For example, if UBI ever became a reality, it would simply then give those ideologically opposed to it all the time in the world to take it down.

Recently Steven Pinker has come closest to getting the ideas of ideological genetic predisposition into the mainstream, refuting the theory of tabula rasa. But ultimately the truth is too 'racist' for academia.

also: True creativity is not to break out of cliches, but to install new cliches.

[vuwyywvueyuve]

Not a theory, but my "model of everything" is the network (or graph). I've never found a concept I can't understand in terms of nodes and edges

[good_vibes]

I'm on a similar train of thought.

I look at everything in terms of plant-based mathematics (trees, branches, nodes, roots, fruits/data). I deduce everything to first principles and work up from there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_(data_structure)

[miguelrochefort]

I can't provide a theory of everything, but I can predict the future:

- The application paradigm will come to an end.

- All apps will be replaced by a general purpose interactive language.

- We will realize NLP doesn't work.

- 80% of software jobs will disappear within the next 15 years.

- Privacy will be revealed as foolish and selfish.

- Transparency will become the norm within the next 30 years.

- Money will be replaced with a social score/currency. Honesty, consistency and predictability will be the most valued traits.

[reciprocity]

Privacy is not foolish or selfish, and despite the ongoing momentum in decreasing levels of personal privacy, is an extremely precious and valued human desire and resource.

[good_vibes]

Why do you think 80% of software jobs will disappear? Won't there be many more new jobs for people in the industry to transition into?

[id122015]

Nothing really matters ?

[bbcbasic]

Anyone can see.

[widea]

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[kwellington]

P ≠ NP