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The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
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I think today the variance of weirdness is increasing. Conformists can conform like never before, due say to social media and the Girardian desire to mimic others. But unusual people can connect with other unusual people, and make each other much weirder and more "niche." For instance, every possible variant of political views seems to be "out ther... See more
Noah Smith • Interview: Tyler Cowen, economist and public intellectual
Social Justice approaches that focus solely on group identity and neglect individuality and universality are doomed to fail for the simple reasons that people are individuals and share a common human nature.
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
James A. Lindsay • 11 highlights
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Since everyone wants my resume: I am not Jewish and have no ties to the land. I’m middle eastern from a Muslim background. I have no skin in the game and no dog in the fight, but I care about truth and I’m alarmed by mass disinformation campaigns that are covertly seeking to dehumanize an entire ethnic group instead of advocating for another. I’ve ... See more
elicaleboninstagram.com“When a system is far from equilibrium small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to lift the entire system to a higher order.”
- Chemist and Nobel Laureate, Illya Prigogine