EFTA Document EFTA01731462

From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, June 7, 2015 5:43 PM To: Joi Ito Subject: Re: what if is the boundary between what is and what is not.=C2*. wh words. are an interesting phoneme.. 4k=A0 On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Joi Ito <I >=wrote: True. I guess "What if?" and "What is the answer=to X?" are both questions.. one with a solution and one without. A=ray or a line vs a line segment right? Math! -Joi On Jun 7, 2015, at 1:10 PM, j=ffrey E. <je=vacation@gmail.com <mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com» wrote: solutions=like nouns are the end. of a computation . questions are the b=ginning and middle.. open ended . like the name joi. its much=more authentic to say you are joing. in process of change . =C24kbounded by the object know as a joi <=r> On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Joi I <mailto > wrote: One ot=er thought. Have been thinking that engineers like to "solve" things. A=e answers to questions "solutions"? How is the role of ima=ination? What about "what if?" questions rather than quest=ons with solutions? -Joi > On Jun 7, 2015, at 10:02 AM, Joi Ito < <mailta > wrote: > "mean but funny..)" Am I the only one who is every mean a=d funny to you? If so, it's important I think. For your fitness. > > The question is great, but the question about the question, or the que=tion of what is the "highest" question or an even "be=ter" question is also sort of funny. It's recursive up in = weird way. > - Joi » On Jun 7, 2015, at 9:01 AM, Jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com <mailto:jeeva=ation@gmail.com» wrote: EFTA_R1_00004591 EFTA01731462 » mean but funny..) ; if you have read kant =is principles are equivalent to arrows in cat theory. h= did not have the formal apparatus to analyze.. amusing.Q=A0 economics is a description of the category of exchanges.=C2* . it is not limited to money or information , it is a process = not a noun » On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Joi Ito < <mailto:ji@m=dia.mit.edu» wrote: » Not your old age question? » :-) » It's like Jeopardy except that Watson won't have t=e answer. » One of my faculty, Cesar Hidalgo, recently wrote a book called &qu=t;Why Information Grows". h=tp://www.amazon.com/Why-Information-Grows-Evolution-Economies/dp/046504899= <http://www.amazon.com/W=y-Information-Grows-Evolution-Economies/dp/0465048994> » I haven't read it yet, but I've had some conversat=ons with him. He's trying to approach it from a physics perspectiv= and agues that life is "information" and "order&q=ot;. Not sure this is right. >> » "What is economic growth? And why, historically, has it occur=ed in only a few places? Previous efforts to answer these questions have f=cused on institutions, geography, finances, and psychology. But according =o MIT's antidisciplinarian Cesar Hidalgo, understanding the natur= of economic growth demands transcending the social sciences and including=the natural sciences of information, networks, and complexity. To understa=d the growth of economies, Hidalgo argues, we first need to understand the=growth of order. » At first glance, the universe seems hostile to order. Thermodynami=s dictates that over time, order--or information--will disappear. Whispers=vanish in the wind just like the beauty of swirling cigarette smoke collap=es into disorderly clouds. But thermodynamics also has loopholes that prom=te the growth of information in pockets. Our cities are pockets where info=mation grows, but they are not all the same. For every Silicon Valley, Tok=o, and Paris, there are dozens of places with economies that accomplish li=tle more than pulling rocks off the ground. So, why does the US economy ou=strip Brazil's, and Brazil's that of Chad? Why did the technology =orridor along Boston's Route 128 languish while Silicon Valley blossom=d? In each case, the key is how people, firms, and the networks they form =ake use of information. » Seen from Hidalgo's vantage, economies become distributed comp=ters, made of networks of people, and the problem of economic development =ecomes the problem of making these computers more powerful. By uncovering =he mechanisms that enable the growth of information in nature and society,=hy Information Grows lays bear the origins of physical order and economic =rowth. Situated at the nexus of information theory, physics, sociology, an= economics, this book propounds a new theory of how economies can do, not =ust more, but more interesting things." >» On Jun 7, 2015, at 6:51 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com <mailto:j=evacation@gmail.com» wrote= >» >» my age old question if LIFE i= the answer , what is the question, what set of=problems are living systems solving for? >» >» >» please note >» The information contained in this communication is >» confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may 2 EFTA_R1_00004592 EFTA01731463 >» constitute inside information, and is intended only for >» the use of the addressee. It is the property of >» JEE >» Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this >» communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited >» and may be unlawful. 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