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We’re all trapped in the bodies of sly, social-climbing opportunists shaped to survive the savanna by policing each other.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
If one were to ascribe a specific date to the dawn of modern climate science, a strong case could be made for August 23, 1856—though its significance went unrecognized for 150 years. Eunice Newton Foote was an artist, inventor, citizen scientist, and early suffragist from upstate New York whose singular contribution to climate science was lost in p
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future.a16z.com • 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future
The false alarm was the result of the explosive amplifying effects of a hyper-information society when fed sensitive news.
Cixin Liu • Death's End (The Three-Body Problem Book 3)
Yet there are so many ways that people can mess things up, so many ways our human tendencies toward bias, sloppiness, error, and fraud can get in the way. Ultimately, we’re such bad detectives, at least by the standards of my young self. We haven’t figured out how to see without being seen. We’re far from all-powerful. We fail at omniscience. Even
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