There’s been a lot of press for Alison Gopnik’s new book, The Philosophical Baby: What Children’s Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love and the Meaning of Life. Via Bookforum, here’s my lazy way of linking to this review … (and more and more and more and more and more and more). And here’s a short video. Here’s also an opinion piece at the New [...]
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This is pretty awesome: via David Brooks: In the late 1930s, a group of 268 promising young men, including John F. Kennedy and Ben Bradlee, entered Harvard College. By any normal measure, they had it made. They tended to be bright, polished, affluent and ambitious. They had the benefit of the world’s most prestigious university. They [...]
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Part of an ongoing series on belief. David Brooks generated a lot of discussion with his column in May on “The Neural Buddhists“: Scientists have more respect for elevated spiritual states. Andrew Newberg of the University of Pennsylvania has shown that transcendent experiences can actually be identified and measured in the brain (people experience a [...]
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Invert the notion of Web 2.0. Take all the principles we love and understand about Web 2.0 (or whatever you want to call it, or not call it) and apply them to the way we think about our own thinking. The mind works like the web, with continuous dynamic linking, aggregating, associating, categorizing, mashing-up, referring, and so on [...]
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[Intro deleted] In economics and contract theory, information asymmetry deals with the study of decisions in transactions where one party has more or better information than the other. This creates an imbalance of power in transactions which can sometimes cause the transactions to go awry. Examples of this problem are adverse selection and moral hazard. [...]
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According to Typealyzer my blog’s personality is INTP: The logical and analytical type. They are especialy [sic] attuned to difficult creative and intellectual challenges and always look for something more complex to dig into. They are great at finding subtle connections between things and imagine far-reaching implications. Not a very surprising result. I do these tests every [...]
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