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The opening paragraph from Russell’s essay “An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish”:
“Man is a rational animal-so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for evidence in favour of this statement, but so far I have not had the good fortune to come across it, though I have searched in many countries spread over three continents. On the contrary, I have seen the world plunging continually further into madness. I have seen great nations, formerly leaders of civilization, led astray by preachers of bombastic nonsense. I have seen cruelty, persecution, and superstition increasing by leaps and bounds, until we have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogy regrettably surviving from a bygone age. All this is depressing, but gloom is a useless emotion. In order to escape from it, I have been driven to study the past with more attention than I had formerly given to it, and have found, as Erasmus found, that folly is
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So much of current pervasive hustle culture is people afraid to even have a vision for their own life outside of capitalist social reproduction, let alone fail at something - “since I was a child all I’ve ever wanted was to enter, and indeed win, several rat races”

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To say mathematics is about what follows from the axioms is roughly equivalent to saying that programming is what follows from assembly instructions - not wrong, but empty

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"A globally connected electric grid would yield synergetically greater environmental and economic benefits than the sum of its nation-state parts operating in isolation could." - sammatey.substack.com/p/the-weekly...

The Weekly Anthropocene Interviews: Greg Watson, Systems Organizer
The Weekly Anthropocene Interviews: Greg Watson, Systems Organizer

A World Grid is being built, the long journey of American offshore wind, farmers' markets in Boston, and more!

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We tell ourselves stories in order to theorize about the world

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"If you think an economy in which price discrimination is normalized can be efficient, then you think Hayek's work is obsolete." - drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/08/18/m... Hayek's knowledge problem applies to corporate price discriminators just as well as to state central planners

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