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Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg figures there could be a formula that explains how people think. During a wide-ranging online question-and-answer session on his Facebook page Tuesday, Zuckerberg told famed physicist Stephen Hawking he would like to find that equation.
"I'm most interested in questions about people," Zuckerberg said in a written chat forum response to Hawking asking what big questions in science he would like to know the answers to. Zuckerberg responded with a list that included how the brain works and immortality.
"I'm also curious about whether there is a fundamental mathematical law underlying human social relationships that governs the balance of who and what we all care about," Zuckerberg added. "I bet there is."
http://phys.org/news/2015-07-facebook-zuckerberg-figure-social-equation.html
Will Zuckerberg be a real life Hari Seldon ? Does SN think there can be a social equation ? If yes, can that equation be formulated in a way that can cater to all (or majority) of social relationships ?
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(Score: 2, Touché) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday July 01 2015, @10:36PM
We all know what happens when some jackass comes up with an overly simplistic mathematical formula [scientificamerican.com] people exploit for money.
Although in this case it will be simply a gimmick to sucker the Goyim for more sheckels. Not that ZuckerJew needs any more sheckels, he has plenty of CIA Afghan heroin-trade investment money pouring in from In-Q-Tel firms all thanks to the aftermath of 9/11.
This approach with modeling how humans think will never be 100% accurate because it's a discrete approach to a continuous problem, and nobody has infinite computing resources to throw at it.
Yup. Weed, man. It opens your mind.