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The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes

I know this story. It’s very bad. Don’t know if David is most evil person in SV. Lots of competition. But can say: we overlapped a year in law school and even way back then he had a reputation for being a complete asshole. And that was at @UChicagoLaw, which is full of assholes.

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The Straussian Moment

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There is one overmastering problem that the socially and politically disinherited always face: Under what terms is survival possible?

Howard Thurman • Jesus and the Disinherited

Two Geeks Are Better Than One

Temple Grandin • Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions

As with any great teacher, one can find the strongest evidence of Perry’s legacy in the success of his students: they became legislators, scholars, and businessmen. (CSB was coed, but Perry focused his efforts almost entirely on his male students; while he was ahead of his time in his thinking on disability, his views on gender were, unfortunately,

Andrew Leland • The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

Note Hull’s comment that if a person or group dissociates the species-specific designation “Homo sapiens” from the designation “human being,” with all of its attendant moral and theological implications, then that person or group has a “less plausible position.” Why? Why should that which we see, hear, feel, taste, or touch (or observe through scie