Misunderstanding Scarcity

When economists say A is scarce people misunderstand that supply of A is fixed. In fact this misunderstanding lies at the core of mistrust of capitalism.

What economists mean when then say A is scarce is that, a copy of A can be of utility to only a fixed number of people.

There is a lot of difference between the two understandings. One grain of Wheat may be of utility to only a fixed people, but its supply can be increased by agriculture. e.g. Some people even grow wheat in desserts and space.

I think the only thing that is truly fixed in supply in this universe is enthalpy. But even that could change in a googol years before the heat death of this universe.

Deriving Emulators

I want something that can systematically derive/detect automatons that emulate other automatons. I believe they are the key to understanding & manipulating life, universe and everything else.Now that we have many competing techniques to describe a process, this shouldn’t be so hard.

Once this is done, I have in mind a tape of iota combinators that combine in all those Catalan number of ways. Only those evaluations that emulate or exhibit properties of existence in reality (i.e. laws of logic) will be selected to continue to evaluate, everything else is rejected. We further narrow down from this set to evaluations that behave like the physics of this universe. Next isolate segments of the evaluation that behave like entities in this universe (i.e. mass, charge etc.).

Once this is done, functional characterization & manipulation of proteins is trivial and can be automated. Novel interventions into the biochemical pathways can be systematically derived from computations. All one would need to do is to arrange those emulatory segments in the evaluation that emulated physics, in ways that emulate the proteins.

This should be the goal of computational biology, and not these liberal gimmicks they teach at my university.

Of course the goal is ambitious. There will be side-innovations that might distract the researchers away from this final goal. But sooner or later this goal will be achieved.

Some of the side-innovations I forsee are, cheap & carbon neutral oil from biomass made by organotrophs/phototrophs, end of suffering from human diseases, end of ageing, end of human monopoly on scientific exploration.

Neil De Grasse Tyson on difference between Science & Religion

Blast This

Heard this in a podcast.

BLAST this sequence: atgttcc tgtccttccc caccaccaag acctacttcc cgcacttcga cctgagccac ggctctgccc aggttaaggg ccacggcaag aaggtggccg acgcgctgac caacgccgtg gcgcacgtgg acgacatgcc caacgcgctg tccgccctga gcgacctgca cgcgcacaag cttcgggtgg acccggtcaa cttcaagctc ctaa

Instructions: Copy and Paste the DNA sequence into the query window, and hit the blast button. Try again selecting the non-human, non-mouse database from the drop down menu. What organism is the exact same gene found in? WTF?

I am getting that house mosquitoes and us share this same gene. We use it to make haemoglobin but mosquitoes use it for tissue control, whatever that means. May be they do an alternative splicing to make a different protein?

Nature has excellent code reuse. Better than most Microsoft, Adobe programmers. LOL!