#ow

All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

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According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

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Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. ↗

— James Lovelock

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If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#better #build #computer #could #everything

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

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We have a picture for how complexity arises, because if the universe is computationally capable, maybe we shouldn't be so surprised that things are so entirely out of control. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

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If we are able to allow people to earn a decent rate of return, with sufficient scale, we can all do well by doing good. ↗

— Andrew Lo

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If you rank the top 50 one-day moves in the S&P 500, a fair number of those happened within the last five or 10 years. That tells you that we're in a different, riskier market now. ↗

— Andrew Lo

#different #fair #five #happened #last

It's important to understand how people perceive risk, and how that translates into investment behavior. ↗

— Andrew Lo

#how #important #into #investment #people

More and more investors may be coming into markets everywhere but that doesn't mean that the markets are really getting more and more efficient, even in the United States. It does mean that there is more access for savvy investors who watch the money flows. ↗

— Andrew Lo

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