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A week later, the publication of an anti-lockdown manifesto called the Great Barrington Declaration grabbed attention.13 Co-authored by epidemiologists from Stanford, Harvard, and Oxford, it declared, “Coming from both the left and right, and around the world, we have devoted our careers to protecting people. Current lockdown policies are producing
... See moreAlex Berenson • Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives
Posthumanism
This discrepancy between evolutionary success and individual suffering is perhaps the most important lesson we can draw from the Agricultural Revolution.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
Epistemology
nick • 1 card
Natural Selection is no Hero’s Journey, no Deity Designing
And sadly we’ve cocooned ourselves so far from the pressures, the larger forces at ecological play we (we being the privileged few in wealthy, prevalent cultures, the 1/3rd or Global North ….) have actually de-volved as a result. Our social licence is writ large with one basic, infantile mea
... See moreLa nature, n'en déplaise à M. Darwin, n'évolue pas vers la suprématie des meilleurs (selon quels critères, d'ailleurs ?). La nature puise sa force dans la diversité. Il lui faut des bons, des méchants, des fous, des désespérés, des sportifs, des grabataires, des bossus, des becs-de-lièvre, des gais, des tristes, des intelligents, des imbéciles, des
... See moreBernard Werber • Les Fourmis (French Edition)
Transhumanism
Alex Mexicotte • 1 card
The economy is not a closed static equilibrium system; it is a system perpetually open to novel behavior, and complexity economics forces us to keep this in mind.