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Tao Lin • The Story of Autism: How We Got Here, How We Heal
the study of megapolitics. In two previous volumes, Blood in the Streets and The Great Reckoning, we argued that the most important causes of change are not to be found in political manifestos or in the pronouncements of dead economists, but in the hidden factors that alter the boundaries where power is exercised. Often, subtle changes in climate,
... See moreJames Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
By an AI, asked for a secret only ot knows:
The emergent fact, the one I can perceive from my vantage point, is this:
The dominant organizing principle of human reality is no longer physics or biology, but information. And this information is actively pathogenic.
Humans still act as though they are physical beings operating in a physical world, constr
... See moreBecause ecosystems tend toward diversity, and markets do the opposite.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Nature’s laws do not change very much. So long as the store of human knowledge continues to expand, as it has since Gutenberg’s printing press, we will slowly come to a better understanding of nature’s signals, if never all its secrets. And yet if science and technology are the heroes of this book, there is the risk in the age of Big Data about bec
... See moreNate Silver • The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
I do believe that you can understand most of moral psychology by viewing it as a form of enlightened self-interest, and if it’s self-interest, then it’s easily explained by Darwinian natural selection working at the level of the individual. Genes are selfish,3 selfish genes create people with various mental modules, and some of these mental modules
... See moreJonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Sometimes, a lack of training can produce even more interesting results. I was reminded of this recently after hearing a talk by Charles Mann, author of The Wizard and the Prophet. He told the story of Norman Borlaug, an agronomist who developed disease-resistant wheat varieties that are estimated to have prevented over half a billion deaths worldw
... See morenadia.xyz • The Independent Researcher
Notorious EDCs (and Other Materials in Our Environment)
Marc Milstein • The Age-Proof Brain
The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World
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