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The advice about "chunking" when writing new code does not apply when, like the cartoon character, you are debugging , perhaps post-facto, an event in a complex system where you mu…

In the Rosinante trilogy of Alexis A. Gilliland the autonomous AIs are self-owned corporations, and indeed are sometimes addressed with the word "Corporate" as a title, somewhat li…

Could not read the article (the paywall locked me out) but the benefits of states in reducing violence are discussed in Jared Diamond's "The World Until Yesterday".

Ian Morris: Why the West Rules - for now Richard Baldwin - The Great Convergence