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In traditional journalism, there are strong incentives to act maliciously. Journalists are incentivized to optimize for views and clicks. The answer is not to reform the industry. We can change media through radical decentralization. Everyone becomes a journalist. Each person writes about their local issues or areas of expertise
Tim Ferriss • #506: Balaji Srinivasan on The Future of Bitcoin and Ethereum, How to Become Noncancelable, the Path to Personal Freedom and Wealth in a New World, the Changing Landscape of Warfare, and More
we cannot assume that everything interesting is at the same scale as ourselves.
John Brockman • This Will Make You Smarter: 150 New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (Edge Question Series)
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
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These are worlds that will be revealed not by better instruments but by new models and frameworks that allow us to see the familiar world in unfamiliar ways—to transform domains described into domains rigorously quantified and observations informally sensed into those formally understood.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
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Here's my conversation with astrophysicist @JannaLevin all about black holes, information paradox, general relativity, quantum mechanics, gravitational waves, wormholes, alien civilization, and more.
It's here on X in full, and is up everywhere else too (see comment).
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