20 - 80 percent rule (Pereto Principle) - Essentialism remix

Solomonoff's theory of inductive inference.  This post has been coming for some time now but it wasn't until I stumbled across this wikipedia page about a mathematical formula for Occam's razor that my ideas of essentialism, collective-consciousness, process and procedure and a need for philosophy just all kind of came to a collective jolt. They percolated in a sense into this single blog post - (which will inevitably get five views its entire life. Four of them being myself.) But hopefully one will be a supercomputer, that uploads my big data content into a super food processor and spits out a replica of myself in the consciousness of the super-computer-brain at some point before the singularity.

Enough about that...

To preface and talk a little bit more about me, AKA Self-Proclaimed Future Master of the Universe, I have always been interested in the idea of the Pereto principle. Which means that it only takes 20% of our time to accomplish 80% of the most important things in our life or day. And we should focus 80% of our time on the 20% of the things that we Kiss-Ack at and Love. We can learn on the exponential learning curve of those things, rather than waste our time beating back the minor things that only influence 20% of our lives and we hate anyway. This learning curve is always shifting, but only upwards and steeper in the right areas. Instead of making a millimeter of progress in a million directions, make thousands of meters of progress in a few directions. This is smarter. Its called working smarter, not harder. It also encourages people to follow their true desires and passions. Productivity follows happiness (Which is just a code word for excitement). The books Essentialsim - The Disciplined Pursuit of Less and The 4-Hour Work Week have both heavily influenced my Meta-Strategic Alpha-provider thought process. When I am in situation and I consciously realize that I am subconsciously displaying actions of a provider.  I can choose whether to allow this "Primal" thought process or chose another one that better suites the situation. The "primal" thought process heavily relies on social hierarchies and cognitive-human biases. It plays on the roles society has shoved down people's throats in the forms of habits and desires. I cannot deny the power that playing the game can have. The Red Pill and Good Looking Loser - although they go a bit overboard - open people's eyes to the fact that there is a game going on among humans. They give some good tips on not just how to play the game, but how to beat the game. I believe that with the 20% rule, one can play the game whenever they choose, and always win. Because it involves focusing on the things that a person is truly good at, and devoting the least amount of energy necessary to gain their desired reward from a particular game.

So this guy literally wrote a mathematical formula to compute this process I just described above. The idea that if something makes more progress it remains but if something is too long and wasteful then it should be cut out. Occam's razor in loose terms describes cutting out things down to where only the essential things needed remain. It started out as a philosophical idea nearly 700 years before computers were even invented. And now Occam's philosophy is helping artificial intelligence machines to learn on their own using the "simplest route" method. Which is basically the method that I advocate for finding truth - the coherence method. One that joins all experiential input together in a "best-fit" model until more pieces of the puzzle are provided. So in a sort of rebuttal to Neil DeGrasse Tyson, I believe philosophy has worth. Because it reveals the consciousness of the human mind which can then be studied and used to help build a collective-consciousness and program artificial intelligence machines. Exploring the processes of the human consciousness can reveal truths that can be applied into everyday life and interactions with others. It can reveal patterns that can be used in business models and organizations. It can be used to help programmers form better logic when writing code. And the most beautiful thing is that when exploring the human consciousness, one can see the eternal mysteries of the universe and be inspired to solve them.