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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 02 2015, @07:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 02 2015, @07:17PM (#204362)

    Most people are getting exactly what they want from their politicians - destruction of unions and further corporate empowerment, destruction of upward social mobility and social safety nets, further disenfranchisement of minorities, lower tax rates for billionaires, money having more direct power attributable to it, more police powers to "keep our streets safe" and to "protect the children", etc, all paving the way to keep the people they irrationally hate oppressed and to make sure that when their hard work and good work ethic finally pays off, or when they finally get their small business off the ground and it finally takes off after all those failures, that they'll get to live the good life. What they fail to realize is that all the policies they push for and support are the exact reason they'll never move beyond the working class and why they no longer have any rights. The worst of the bigots understand the policies they support work against them but are fine with it, seeing it as a noble sacrifice to keep the blacks or muslims or whatever in their place.