Monthly Archives: February 2012

A Simple Case For Entropy Maximisation

Posted on 18/02/2012 by

Some days ago I invented a simple though experiment to illustrate some foundational concepts of information and entropy as it applies to human economics. Its very simple to understand, and it goes like this.

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God’s Utility Function

Posted on 12/02/2012 by

Lets Make a Mess Life’s purpose is entropy maximisation. Here is a video of a geek (who has successfully applied the aforementioned principle to his own face) explaining extremely clearly why this is so.

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Political Ponerology, B Minus

Posted on 08/02/2012 by

Well, I’ve read as much of this work as I am going to. There’s much to like but unfortunately quite a bit wrong with it as well.

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Little by Little

Posted on 02/02/2012 by

Sorry for the lack of posts recently – I have been wading through Political Ponerology (see the last post), and through a new Gorton paper on the constancy of risk free assets as a percentage of all financial assets at … Continue reading →

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