Research on moral socialization has largely focused on the role of direct communication and has almost completely ignored a potentially rich source of social influence: evaluative comments that child...
TED Talk Subtitles and Transcript: Theoretical physicist David Deutsch delivers a mind-bending meditation on the "great monotony" -- the idea that nothing novel has appeared in the universe for billions of years -- and shows how humanity's capacity...
Paul Sztorc"...physics [created] a cosmic war [between] order and... entropy. That story does allow for hope for the future. But in another way, it's even bleaker than the ancient myths, because the villain, entropy, is preordained to have the final victory..."
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Paul Sztorc"The big problem is: the accessible universe is finite, and so we will only ever be able to access a finite amount of negentropy. No matter how much we innovate."
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On this episode on the Unhashed Podcast: We switch things up a bit and have on Joshua Unseth (aka Junseth) of Bitcoin Uncensored fame. We discuss the merits of the Efficient Markets Hypothesis, the stereotype of the Florida man, and how to include...
The componential view of human emotion recognises that affective states comprise conscious, behavioural, physiological, neural and cognitive elements.…
FuturePundit on twitter has an interesting theory of Elon Musk’s technology portfolio, namely a lot of it will be very valuable for living in a failed state. Solar panels, for example, are a necessity when the state can’t deliver power reliably, as...
Bitcoin.com, the firm backed by cryptocurrency investor Roger Ver, is planning to set up a $200 million investment fund to boost bitcoin cash (BCH) adoption. The fund, dubbed “BCH Ecosystem Investment Fund,” will invest in and incubate...