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That’s not to believe that everything becomes relative there, nor that anything goes.
Dennis Yi Tenen • Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write
Joshua Foer, “Moonwalking with Einstein” (2011)
Michael Nielsen • Augmenting Long-Term Memory
clever people sought to measure, in data bits, the amount of information produced in
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
History’s subtle advantage lies in the revealing of trajectories through time.
Dennis Yi Tenen • Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write
resisting the rule of the algorithm takes energy and creativity and courage, and the risk for our culture is that our technological skill and our cultural exhaustion are working together, defending decadence and closing off escape.
Ross • Can We Resist the Age of the Algorithm?
technical sophistication,
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
“The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.” —Claude Lévi-Strauss
Gillian Tett • Anthro-Vision
On beauty in science: “He’s a very intuitive person,” says Niemi. “He sees the equations, but he sees beyond the equation. He thinks immediately, does this make sense in a wider context? … He smells the equation, if it smells good or not. Or if it has the beauty.”
Gabriel Popkin • The Universe According to Frank Wilczek - John Templeton Foundation
Alexis de Tocqueville