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People who met him then described him as socially awkward, overly earnest, and cerebral.
John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
Andrew Sullivan • Andrew Sullivan: See You Next Friday
systemic ableism?
Jonathan Mooney • Normal Sucks
Finkle-McGraw began to develop an opinion that was to shape his political views in later years, namely, that while people were not genetically different, they were culturally as different as they could possibly be, and that some cultures were simply better than others. This was not a subjective value judgment, merely an observation that some cultur
... See moreNeal Stephenson • The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)
Our encounter with AI – our self-created nemesis, our last invention, and, I suspect, our last chance – may ensure that human exceptionalism will give way to humility.
Jeanette Winterson • 12 Bytes
As technological upgrades and modifications to our inner state become increasingly common, what happens to the Pale of the Body when whole swatches of the populace begin finding God in the machine?
Steven Kotler • Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work
Gruber’s Darwin on Man is both the canonical study of Darwin’s intellectual journey toward the idea of natural selection and one of the most insightful books on scientific creativity ever written.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
Another influential book was a biography of Nikola Tesla,