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43,310karma·7,664submissions·February 13, 2019
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Good points. I do wonder about the "unknown unknowns" of tools that are accessible to humans. You mention one tool: "mathematics which further enables us to prove theories completely o…
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Interesting points. And I agree with your note, "I do believe there is a house style and it pays to maintain it." When Nikkei bought the FT a few years ago, I remember some were concerned t…
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Interesting response. This makes me think of the concept of cognitive closure in philosophy. In essence, humans can understand things only up to a limit in the chain of evolution - just like an anima…
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The author writes: "A study from 2018 found that people formed a “casual” friendship after spending 30 hours together." Of note, when you click on that "study", it's actuall…
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Source: https://basicincome.stanford.edu/research/ubi-cities-toolkit .
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The author writes: ”While philosophers in ancient Greece raise sceptical questions concerning others, it is has been suggested that the problems they raise tend to be ‘thin’ rather than ‘thick’ ones …
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Could all this be within a system? Would there be edges or boundaries?
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Interesting, the author writes: “Over the past few years, I’ve conducted about 300 market research surveys while working in a creative advertising agency. As I was reading about Charles Booth it occu…
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Yup, I get this sense too. You also write, "any variety of quality and less than quality online sources." Is there research that explains what the economics looks like between these two end…
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This is neat, I'll check out Jonathan Crary's writing, thank you!
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Interesting points. You write about externalities, which touch on an economist view. And you also note Ed Bernay and his work on human psychology/propaganda. Is there empirical literature that …
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