Terms of Media II Actions Conference - Forecast - Mediate - Q & A

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• 00:00:00

  Thank you very much for your lectures. We have around 10 minutes for questions. Finn, you were first. Thank you both for a fascinating set of talks. These were really brilliant. I just wanted to start with something that builds off the exact last line of your talk, which was, I was delighted to see parts…

• 00:02:20

  But it's a question which kind of draws from Wolfgang, and then hopefully, Luciana, you will jump into it as well. But I was just doing a perverse reading of the book, which, I think, is very important. And I think it's very important to have a very detailed reading of design, because so much of design is about…

• 00:05:26

  But representing dimensions of dimensions like dimensions representing dimensions like dimensions representing dimensions representing dimensions representing dimensions representing dimensions representing dimensions representing dimensions representing dimensions representing dimensions representing dimensions…

• 00:07:08

  But one of the really interesting things is there's a way in which computers can actually incorporate randomness quite well as long as you can get it from the outside, right? So if you look at people, we've talked a lot about Claude Shannon this afternoon and generally throughout the thing. But mostly in terms…

• 00:08:32

  One, then there's another argument that says that actually, instead of entropy, one can think of anti-entropy. Because entropy, as we know from being, okay, so, you know, you can't say, oh, well, I'm going to do this, and then you can't do that. And so, you know, you can't say, oh, well, I'm going to do that. And…

• 00:10:29

  And I think that's the reason why I say, we need to address randomness within computation, is because I do not want to relativize and have this kind of external reference. Because within computing, the level of complexity that we have today within computations are a point to a randomness of information within…

• 00:12:21

  And then in the mid-'90s, the law was changed. The social housing across the United States was demolished. And patterns were built. And the people who wrote that code were apostles of Christopher Alexander and Prince Charles. So just to, you know, it's a complicated story that I'm obviously reducing. But I think it's…

• 00:14:10

  Yeah, something like that. Yeah. I think on that note, we should end. Please join me in thanking our speakers.