Life after Earth ... for capitalists
Economic growth is very surprisingly limited by the speed of light! Einstein wasn't wrong (again) to have called compound interest "the most powerful force in the universe".
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Economic growth is very surprisingly limited by the speed of light! Einstein wasn't wrong (again) to have called compound interest "the most powerful force in the universe".
Discussing Radicalized and many other things.
Making Sense podcast #161 - a discussion with Jared Diamond on his latest book (Upheaval) and also a lot about Guns, Germs and Steel.
This is fascinating. The shifts due to ransomware & bitcoin particularly.
Sam Harris speaks with Nick Bostrom about the problem of existential risk. They discuss public goods, "the vulnerable world hypothesis," the history of nuclear deterrence, "turnkey totalitarianism," the Doomsday Argument, and other topics.
Crazy story, kind of Elon Musk crossed with Ross Ulbricht.
Sam Harris speaks with Douglas Rushkoff about Team Human and the digital economy.
Good interview of Sam Harris by Chris Anderson for his TED interview podcast.
Yet another interesting After On episode.
This one is fascinating. Also the letter &!
By now we take for granted overriding the evolutionary programming of our bodies (e.g. reproduction), cognitive biases are indicating where we need to do that for our brains.
This is concerning. "The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed" William Gibson is usually taken to be referring to a bright future the rich are already enjoying, but it could be that the poor are already experiencing what is to be our distopian future...
The Guinness Book of Records no longer accepts balloon release records.
Very interesting and rather scary...
Very good conversation between Rob Reid and Stewart Brand.
Just try to not smile while listening to this one! 😄
Robert Webb and Clementine Ford talking for the Wheeler Centre about his book How Not to Be a Boy.
Eric Schles describes his experiences working on social justice initiatives and the types of work that proved to be the most helpful to the groups that he was working with.
The story goes that Amsterdam in the 1630s was gripped by a mania for Tulip flowers. But then there was a crash in the market. People ended up bankrupt and threw themselves into canals. This story is still being trotted out when people talk about financial markets lately as a comparison to buying and selling bitcoin. But how much of what we know of the Tulip craze is fact, and how much is myth? We speak to Anne Goldgar at Kings College London who explains all.
This sounds very interesting - creating monitoring tools for data quality "by example".
An interesting static site content management system hybrid.
Really good interview with Don Hoffman explaining his theory that evolution selects against having an objective view of reality.
The Problem : Faces were not part of the deal.