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The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize ‘inconvenient’ facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions. And for every party opinion there are facts that are extremely inconvenient, for my own opinion no less than for others. I believe the teacher […]
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“next to of course god america i
love you land of the pilgrims’ and so forth oh
say you can see by the dawn’s early my
country ’tis of centuries come and go
and are no more what of it we should worry
in every language even deafanddumb
thy sons acclaim your glorious name by gorry
by jingo by […]
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Recently Bruce Schneier posted a debunking of the idea of a Transparent Society (such as put forward by David Brin). He argues that the while the more open exchange of information in society can lead to a power balance, existing power structures mean that those already powerful will benefit most from disclosure. […]
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Sire, I had no need of that hypothesis.
Pierre-Simon Laplace, a french scientist, replying to Napoleon on being asked why there was no mention of God in his work on the movement of the planets.
What use is that hypothesis to you? Let me know.
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I’ve often looked to the roads, traffic, and vehicle-pedestrian interaction as a guide to human to behavior. It is a situation where the risk is very high and communication is highly constrained, so behavior strategies are more readily apparent.
Most of us know the roads as strongly structured environments with mostly clear rules […]
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You are trying to decide what policy best helps the environment, or how to improve the lot of the poor, or maybe you just need to know how to vote in the primaries.
Let’s have a look at the field: the right is too religious, war-mongering, corporatist and at times overly naive. The […]
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A turtle was happily swimming along a river when a scorpion hailed it from the shore.
“Dear friend turtle!” called the scorpion. “Please let me climb upon your back and swim me to the other side of the river!”
“No,” replied the turtle, “for if I do, you shall sting me, and I shall […]
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Life philosophies, that is, sets of ideologies that govern our goal selections, tend to rest on a certain axis. Its one pole lies at “Carpe Diem” and the other at “Ad Veritas”, which is a term I made up to signify the pursuit of naught but the ultimate universal truths.
These two extremes […]
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