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Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Figure Out Social Equation

posted by janrinok on Wednesday July 01 2015, @10:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the its-psychohistory-time-folks dept.

AnonTechie writes:

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: 5, Insightful) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday July 02 2015, @12:12AM

    by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Thursday July 02 2015, @12:12AM (#204024) Journal

    He must be terminated. Clearly this is how Skynet happens after the events of Terminator 2. No Turks or John Henrys needed.

    I'm putting out an APB to all ginger T-2001s.

    Also not sure if I should be watching Terminator Genisys right now or not. All they've got on torrent are out of focus camrips in languages I don't speak. Maybe I'm just waiting for Terminator SystemD. (systemd played by Helena Bonham Carter?)

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    Are you fucking kidding me?! Some asshole who writes a shitty PHP script that hacks social engineering so that he can track his ex-gf thinks he's going to fucking distill humanity to some fundamental mathematical law?! And this shit gets on phys.org?! Amazons, attack!

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  • (Score: 2) by captain normal on Thursday July 02 2015, @04:47AM

    by captain normal (2205) on Thursday July 02 2015, @04:47AM (#204097)

    Oh god...why did I blow my mod points before I got to this gem. Well said...wish I'd written it.

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