I noticed recently that George Johnson will be journalist in residence and giving a talk on Friday at the KITP in Santa Barbara about “The String Wars”. Somehow I don’t really thi…| Not Even Wrong
The trustees on Friday changed the Charters and Statutes of the university, something it seems they can just do when they feel like it, without consulting with anyone or telling the community what they’ve done. Stand Columbia (Tao Tan) is pleased they’ve done this, so has checked the new version against the old, you can see his analysis here.| Not Even Wrong
> Anybody who’s not bothered by Bell’s theorem has to have rocks in his head. — ‘A distinguished Princeton physicist’, as told to David Mermin This post is a long, idiosyncratic discussion of th…| drossbucket
(I posted this on Less Wrong back in April and forgot to cross post here. It’s just the same references I’ve posted before, but it’s worth reading over there for the comments, whi…| drossbucket
In July 2019, Tyler Cowen and I wrote a piece for the Atlantic entitled We Need a New Science of Progress. (It was in some ways a sequel to an earlier article that Michael Nielsen and I wrote together.) I'm collecting some of the responses to it below.| patrickcollison.com
We are told that technology is on the brink of ruining everything. But we are being lied to, and the truth is so much better. Marc Andreessen presents his techno-optimist vision for the future.| Andreessen Horowitz
Thucydides predicted that future generations would underestimate the power of Sparta. It built no great temples, left no magnificent ruins. Absent any tangible signs of the sway it once held, memor…| Slate Star Codex