As far as I can tell, Janelle Shane wanted to put a cute and cuddly face on Artificial Intelligence, and this is exactly what the field needs.
Intelligence is communal. I asked around, and apparently this makes sense.
read more The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone – Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach
A guide to my body is exactly what I have always been wanting. I am not sure this book fulfills that desire.
You can define your education by answering the question “Name notable figures from the Romantic period”. The answer, apparently, should all be scientists.
If the sentence “Baxter did a Stapeldon” makes sense to you, you will enjoy this review.
The problem with predicting how society will go wrong based on what is wrong now is that it assumes all the factors will stay the same. Whoops.
It isn’t enough to have just a valid point. You also need to have a sound argument.
There is a point of diminishing returns with being interdisciplinary. I thing this book may have missed that point.
read more Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst – Robert M. Sapolsky
This book is more a typology of weird things believed than an explanation as to why they believe them.
I told some friends I would read anything, pretty indiscriminately. For some reason they though this would be a challenge of some sort.
Failures in Polymathy 