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Anybody else suddenly have the urge to play Civilization?

Is it just me or does the article seem to end rather abruptly as if much more was intended and perhaps accidentally left off or just published before completion?

Funny how we want to take an incredibly complex system and boil it down to 1+1=2. We think we're really advanced when we throw in 3rd or 4th step into the math equation. But not su…

I think when it comes to evaluating true novelty we underestimate how much our language does our thinking for us. Which is another reason why novel ideas hide from us so well. To p…

Quite apart from the math and science of deterministic physics and probabilistic quantum physics, there's a broader evolutionary question. Why would we evolve this hallucination th…

It's amazing to me how everyone is drinking the koolaid here on him being a fraud. I really don't think Gavin got duped. And I'm pretty sure they had enough private email discussio…

I dislike this expertise as well, but lets get at what you are saying, that a recruiter should have some sort of programming background to know how concepts actually are used versu…

Agreed, at first I thought they were trying to make a point, then it seems to lapse into some sort of cartoonish straw man just-for-entertainment depiction, but then it veers back …

A default is a horrible outcome, but "that which can't be paid back won't". It's been pretty clear for a while now that the debt load for the Greek economy is too great and some so…

I could see myself doing something equally as silly as this if I had the money to burn.

It's all our fault.

I think most people use the concept of being for or against "Freedom" to refer to the opposite sides of the bottom-up versus top-down modes of economic development and governance. …

"I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating." - Boss Tweed quoted recently by Lawrence Lessig While I believe the above statement is fundamentally tr…