From: "Jeffrey E." <[email protected]> To: Subject: Re: Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 12:36:28 +0000 why is the fatalaties on us roads virtually constant every year. ? faraday leibniz and aristotle did not have access to large statistics over years. these are the new tools On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 6:27 PM, Seth Lloyd c wrote: I. Yes this is 'reversion to the mean' and it definitely happens. This is the basis for what is called an entropic force (rubber bands as we discussed) 2. Absolutely: for large numbers of particles, the entropy arguments give rise to macroscopic statistical quantities like temperature and pressure 3. Yes: and they don't obey the central limit theorem (they are non-Gaussian). As we discussed, there are lots of potential reasons for this. The main one is that if there is no restriction on the variance of a distribution the central limit theorem doesn't apply and so you get power laws as in the Pareto law for income distribution. 4. I didn't claim I described it well. I'd say one actor intentionally hides some information that the other actor can't decrypt. That is, the first actor is trying to deceive the second in order to take advantage. Got to run give a talk for Stewart Brand/Danny Hillis! Seth On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 8:22 PM, Jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote: 1, re flips. ordering is not my focus. my focus is that the program that says. as you approach a larger number the total number of ones and zeros ( the fair coin flip ) , should be 50/50/ it is the opposite of information as that relates to the individual flips. , I maintain that the distribution of flips may be described by skewing . A force that leads to 50/ 50 2. again re heat. we cant say anything about indiv particles. but we can measure their overall temp and pressure 3. social distributions of talents and characteristics, seem to follow the same distribution for years. 4 deception, relies on the concept of INTENTION. not well desribed. On Tue,