Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.
But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.
Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
Lately I’ve been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.
I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.
In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.