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"Modern science has imposed on humanity the necessity for wan- dering. Its progressive thought and its progressive technology make the transition through time, from generation to generation, a true migration into uncharted seas of adventure."
A. N. Whitehead, Science and the…
"My general impression . . . confirms my longstanding belief that in the oncoming generation America will be the centre of worthwhile philosophy. European philosophy has gone dry, and cannot make any worthwhile use of the results of nineteenth century scholarship. It is in chains…
This is Voyager 1 being launched on a Titan III/Centaur on September 5, 1977
It's now 15 Billion Miles Away
NASA just had a chat with it and fixed an onboard software glitch
As you do!
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"T.S. Eliot once criticized Bertrand Russell's essay “A Free Man's Worship” on the grounds that it was not for people who “hunger and thirst after righteousness” so much as for those who are content with a snack at the bar."
Colin Wilson
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Why adopt good, innovative clean industry development policies proposed by our best policy minds when you can copy bad policies from overseas (and from decades ago!)
"Finally, it is disappointing that the Prime Minister has ignored the proposals by Ross Garnaut and Rod Sims who…
What do you do if the public is struggling to understand complex information?
LinkedIn are giving me a badge if I get three of these questions right — how did I go?
"I am shocked, SHOCKED to hear that the public did not understand complex information. When did this happen. I…
"Under the orderly surface of the life of lies, therefore, there slumbers the hidden sphere of life in its real aims, of its hidden openness to truth"
Vaclav Havel, The power of the powerless
"As a rule, concern that a fact might influence public opinion in a way we dislike overrides our curiosity about it and our honesty in making it known"
Jean-Francois Revel, 1983
"economics has frequently prided itself on avoiding
'metaphysical assumptions' while positively gobbling up logical positivist metaphysics"
Hilary Putnam, The Collapse of the Fact/Value Distinction
Government and inter-governmental agencies feel compelled to communicate in propaganda memes. I happen not to disagree with its description of Russia's invasion of Ukraine as a "war of aggression", but it's completely gratuitous in an economic report.
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Tyler Cowen on EA and existential risk
It's a fair cop
"Hardly anyone associated with Future Fund saw the existential risk to … the Future Fund, even though they were as close to it as one could possibly be. I am thus skeptical about their ability to predict existential risk…
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