They tell each other what they are thinking. But there is no reason to believe anything they say.
Ease of representation. It’s always more than what you see, bigger than what you know. That said, people in this era did do it.
When in doubt, just do it. Try something and observe the results. Good-enough decision algorithm
We should do this more often, Charlotte lied. For sure, Larry lied back.
We live in a world where people pretend money can buy you anything, so money becomes the point, so we all work for money.
We are all alone in our own life-world, flying through the universe at great speed. Humans are lucky not to face that. If they don’t.
We all have secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes, our terror of death; our experience of shame; the world of pain; and our dreams. No one el...
Then it’s a matter of troubleshooting, grasping the bull by the horns, seizing the nettle, coping and hoping, damning torpedoes, and trying any old thing, including the engineer’s solution, which is t...
The command to be free is a double bind
Self-reliance my ass. We’re fucking monkeys. It’s always about teamwork.
Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.
Not to have a correct political view is like having no soul.
No, we’re the two old Muppets on the balcony, cracking lame jokes.
Maybe fear and want never went away. We are more than food and drink and shelter. It seems like those should be the crucial determinants, but many a well-fed citizen is filled with rage and fear. They...
Jevons Paradox,
It’s fragile what we know. It’s gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again.
In an expanding universe, Spencer had said, order was not really order, but merely the difference between the actual entropy exhibited and the maximum entropy possible.
History is humankind trying to get a grip. Obviously not easy. But it could go better if you would pay a little more attention to certain details, like for instance your planet.
Extra time was spent on the farms in every biome, and in watching the feed from Earth.
Existence is the experiment itself.