“To be able to say you’re wrong and here are the reasons, is respect. To say you’re evil, is anti-human.” — Penn Jillette

This is not an endorsement of libertarianism, per se, but it is a damned good working description. Compare and contrast to other ideas and draw your own conclusions.

*but didn’t know how to ask. Okay, not really everything, but it’s a reasonable start.

Stephen Wolfram: “Back in 1981, I had the idea that, perhaps, just as I’d been able to find primitives for computations people want to do, I might somehow also be able to find primitives for what nature does.

The crucial thing that I realized is that those primitives don’t have to be based only on traditional mathematical constructs. I mean, if one’s going to be able to do theoretical science, one has to assume that nature follows some kind of definite rules.

But why do those rules involve only the kinds of constructs that have been invented in human mathematics?

Can’t the rules be somehow more general?

Perhaps the kinds of rules that can be embodied in programs might actually be what nature is using.”

If the adoration of footlights is ever fleeting, false, and fickle, the kitchen table is equally real. If you can’t get it right here, you won’t get it right anywhere; and if you can, vice versa, of course. Keep doing what you dream to do until you’re doing it at the level and quality you imagined.

As if that weren’t enough self-discipline and creativity for you, the artists have also created a “video-jukebox” prototype at BlahBlahBleh.