Kos, O'Reilly Debate rules!
Kos and O'Reilly must have a debate, obviously.But no sane person would debate O'Reilly on his own show, given that he yells over you and cuts off your microphone.So we need a venue that allows a...
View ArticleDailyKos as failed Open Society
In Karl Popper's famous book, The Open Society, in Chapter Ten, he points out that in the absence of social-relations-based culture, it is necessary for the society to instill personal morality in its...
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crosslyposted at pffStop fooling yourselves. We WANT war.We compartmentalize, we rationalize, and then we fly off for a little "eco" tourism, a drive to the movieplex twenty miles away, a convention of...
View ArticleAl Gore's Social Engineering.
Tribalism doesn't scale. We evolved as tribes. We have many characteristics that explain easily by heeding this history. It's called evolutionary psychology, and it enlists chaos and emergence theory...
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NEUROSCIENCE AND MORAL POLITICS: Chomsky’s Intellectual ProgenyAre humans "wired for empathy"? How does this affect what Chomsky calls the "manufacturing of consent"?Throughout the world, teachers,...
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As Bonddad's top-rated diary re-re-reiterates, it looks bad.My question is: how long is the crash going to last, and what will you actually need money for?House? No, there will be a moratorium on...
View ArticleSwarming Kossacks: The rules?
Much ado about Kossack behavior; much feigned ignorance by inaction from the programmers of the algorithms that generate the weird undesirable behaviors.Perhaps some understanding might be gleaned by...
View ArticleIt's here already.
It's so much fun to read about how computers are going to get so smart that they take over the world. Then we all go woo-woo! and we snuggle down into our Chinese chair and have some popcorn and watch...
View ArticleKos, O'Reilly Debate rules!
Kos and O'Reilly must have a debate, obviously.But no sane person would debate O'Reilly on his own show, given that he yells over you and cuts off your microphone.So we need a venue that allows a...
View ArticleDailyKos as failed Open Society
In Karl Popper's famous book, The Open Society, in Chapter Ten, he points out that in the absence of social-relations-based culture, it is necessary for the society to instill personal morality in its...
View ArticleWe WANT war!
crosslyposted at pffStop fooling yourselves. We WANT war.We compartmentalize, we rationalize, and then we fly off for a little "eco" tourism, a drive to the movieplex twenty miles away, a convention of...
View ArticleAl Gore's Social Engineering.
Tribalism doesn't scale. We evolved as tribes. We have many characteristics that explain easily by heeding this history. It's called evolutionary psychology, and it enlists chaos and emergence theory...
View ArticlePromote this!
NEUROSCIENCE AND MORAL POLITICS: Chomsky’s Intellectual ProgenyAre humans "wired for empathy"? How does this affect what Chomsky calls the "manufacturing of consent"?Throughout the world, teachers,...
View ArticleBuy food. You can't eat money.
As Bonddad's top-rated diary re-re-reiterates, it looks bad.My question is: how long is the crash going to last, and what will you actually need money for?House? No, there will be a moratorium on...
View ArticleSwarming Kossacks: The rules?
Much ado about Kossack behavior; much feigned ignorance by inaction from the programmers of the algorithms that generate the weird undesirable behaviors.Perhaps some understanding might be gleaned by...
View ArticleIt's here already.
It's so much fun to read about how computers are going to get so smart that they take over the world. Then we all go woo-woo! and we snuggle down into our Chinese chair and have some popcorn and watch...
View ArticleKos, O'Reilly Debate rules!
Kos and O'Reilly must have a debate, obviously.But no sane person would debate O'Reilly on his own show, given that he yells over you and cuts off your microphone.So we need a venue that allows a...
View ArticleDailyKos as failed Open Society
In Karl Popper's famous book, The Open Society, in Chapter Ten, he points out that in the absence of social-relations-based culture, it is necessary for the society to instill personal morality in its...
View ArticleWe WANT war!
crosslyposted at pffStop fooling yourselves. We WANT war.We compartmentalize, we rationalize, and then we fly off for a little "eco" tourism, a drive to the movieplex twenty miles away, a convention of...
View ArticleAl Gore's Social Engineering.
Tribalism doesn't scale. We evolved as tribes. We have many characteristics that explain easily by heeding this history. It's called evolutionary psychology, and it enlists chaos and emergence theory...
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