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A company that could pay all its employees so straightforwardly would be enormously successful. Many employees would work harder if they could get paid for it. More importantly, such a company would attract people who wanted to work especially hard. It would crush its competitors.
Hackers & Painters - Big Ideas From the Computer Age
Paul Graham
Darwin proposed that the diversity of life is due to one basic algorithm. Mountcastle proposed that the diversity of intelligence is also due to one basic algorithm.
A Thousand Brains_ A New Theory of Intelligence
Jeff Hawkins
The maximum theoretical net efficiency of photosynthesis (after subtracting all respiration losses) is about four per cent of insolation, but this rate can be approached only during brief periods and in the presence of adequate water and nutrients. Intensively tended (irrigated, fertilized) crops can average two per cent efficiency during their growing season; the most productive temperate and tropical forests approach 1.5%. The global continental average is only 0.33%, and, because oceanic phytoplankton convert less than 0.1% of insolation into new aquatic phytomass, the average for the entire biosphere is less than 0.2%. To put it differently, the energy of only one in 500 photons which reach the planet’s ice-free surface gets converted into new phytomass.
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