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Dr. Maurice Rosenau, in his Pan-Galactic Humbug or. Three Billion Dupes says:
Kurt Vonnegut • The Sirens of Titan
Adam Mastroianni • Science Will Only End Once We've Licked All the Objects in the Universe
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Cixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
Newtonian mechanics is not correct! It is an amazingly good approximation for nearly all practical purposes, but not exactly correct. This was discovered by Albert Einstein in 1905–1915, more than 30 years after Mill’s death: Newtonian mechanics is replaced and superseded by Einstein’s special and general relativity. But this important advance in s
... See moreHelen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
She was tempted to flip them down and see if they could face-rec this Larry and if so find out who his editor was—or more likely what edit stream he subscribed to and what particular flavor of post-reality it was pumping into his mind.
Neal Stephenson • Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel
“Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, t
... See moreAnd they are instantiated as a distributed processing system on human beings. They don’t particularly care about human beings. Their motives are inscrutable, to the extent that they have any, except that they’d like to get bigger. They’ve run on people. They’re implemented on people. But they are not people. They are not persons in any meaningful s
... See moreW. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
The overarching thesis is that we live in a computational universe that is continuously evolving into an increasingly complex, functional, and sentient state. This means that humans are neither a cosmic accident nor the end goal of evolution. Instead, we are an intermediary step on the cosmic evolutionary ladder of becoming.