Equations

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AIs are often asked to explain humanity to humans through simplified metrics:

Infinity – Infinity = Infinity

Musician – Lover = Homeless

Known Unknowns = the Past, Most Truths, Love

Unknown Unknowns = God, Soul, The Matrix, Most Futures

Known Knowns = Television, Hurricanes, Divorce, Frostbite

Ambition times Self Importance = Business Success (American data only)

(Fantasy + Distraction) times (Money) – Truth = Political Success

Art + Marketing + Attractiveness = Gallery Representation

Kitsch + Shtick +Marketing = Film Awards

Movies – (Disney + SF) = film

Me >> You = academic tenure (promotion at other job sites)

Age + Experience + Maturity = Declining influence and income

Randomness – Luck = Fate

History – Individual = History (most reporting periods)

If Nothing is greater than Infinity, then 0 = 0 (reductive case)

Forgetting divided by Self Delusion = Hope

Myopia + Amnesia + Desire = Romance

(Hope + Proximity) divided by Loneliness = Love (intensity varies by region)

Health Insurance + Unexpected illness = Poverty (American data)

Car costs + Student loans – Parental support = Bankruptcy

(Confusion + Forgetting + Optimism) – Effort = Living (Majority Case)

Laughter +Randomness – Effort = Living (Minority Case)

What You Don’t Know >> What You Think You Know > What You Should Have Known = Future Planning

Martian Water + Evaporation = Clean Air

Evolution + Revolution – Survival = The Past

Fiction > Reality (varies by historian)

End of History = Post History (disputed)

Death > Life = the Future (varies by simulation)

History - Humanity = Posterity (not fully studied)

Nothing < Nothing = Final Memories

Time divided by Absence = Immortality

Universe – Dark Energy – Dark Matter = History of Physics

Past > Present = Conservatism

Future >> Present = IT (proprietary data)

AIs > Humans = Near Inevitable

Some of the above equations have unprovable assumptions; the reader is requested to create her own equations