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(most famously, the Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom
Jordan Ellenberg • How Not to Be Wrong
Nothing in Snow’s essay enraged his assailant F. R. Leavis as much as this passage: It is all very well for us, sitting pretty, to think that material standards of living don’t matter all that much. It is all very well for one, as a personal choice, to reject industrialisation—do a modern Walden if you like, and if you go without much food, see mos
... See moreSteven Pinker • Enlightenment Now
Uber can manage millions of taxi drivers with only a handful of humans.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
In other words, the average forager had wider, deeper and more varied knowledge
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Until today, high intelligence always went hand in hand with a developed consciousness.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
CHAPTER 11 PEACE
Steven Pinker • Enlightenment Now
The key to good style, far more than obeying any list of commandments, is to have a clear conception of the make-believe world in which you’re pretending to communicate.
Steven Pinker • The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
Modern men are descendants of those who erred in the jealous direction, even when this error produced some marital friction.
David M. Buss • The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy Is as Necessary as Love and Sex
One of the most incomprehensible features of a crowd is the tenacity with which the members adhere to erroneous assumptions despite mounting evidence to challenge them.