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The Marginalian • Buckminster Fuller’s Manifesto for the Genius of Generalists
... See moreThe aspect of Scott Buchanan’s life to which this memoir relates began, for me at least, with a college lecture he gave in October of 1944.
The lecture was a flight of high speculative fancy in which he tried to imagine the features of a Republic of Learning joined with a political republic.
If man is a political animal, his virtues compromised and
But goats are generalists: the world is their meadow. Leave them on an island—they will not spend all their energy on refusal and regret but will experiment until they find something new to eat, life sufficient condiment for the scraggliest fare. Put them in a barn with frocks and cigars and political pamphlets and toy blocks and banjos and yo-yos
... See moreAmy Leach • Things That Are: Essays
Tetlock leur a donné des surnoms (empruntés au philosophe Isaiah Berlin) qui sont devenus célèbres dans les communautés de la psychologie et du renseignement : les hérissons spécialisés qui « connaissent une chose sur le bout des ongles » et les renards agrégateurs qui « connaissent beaucoup de petites choses ».