- ‘When it comes to understanding something as basic as the activities of human beings, then, the academy is divided. The social sciences sometimes hardly seem scientific at all, while the natural sciences cannot provide an account of human behaviour that is either rich enough to account for its diversity, or human enough to be accessible or meaningful to the rest of us.’
- Dilbert on The Confusolpoly
- Shalizi: ‘file-drawer problem alone will guarantee a steady stream of new results’ in a scientific field which is investigating non-existent phenomena
- ‘We let grand concentrations of private wealth reconstitute themselves across the American economic landscape. We let the super rich regain their power to dictate and distort America’s political discourse’
- Persuasion: The Sleeper Effect
- Wikipedia: Kobayashi Maru
- Chelsea Hotel #1
- ‘One day, though, Mr. Zimbardo hopes to have a hero project in every city.’
- ‘Are students
pre-programmed to live with inequality?’ - ‘the idea that other peoples of the world aren’t failed attempts at being you, that comes powerfully from the psychedelic experience’
- Clay Shirky on Wikileaks: ‘If it’s OK for a democracy to just decide to run someone off the internet for doing something they wouldn’t prosecute a newspaper for doing, the idea of an internet that further democratizes the public sphere will have taken a mortal blow’
- ‘The leak, in other words, is only the catalyst for the desired counter-overreaction; Wikileaks wants to provoke the conspiracy into turning off its own brain in response to the threat’
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