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…idn’t work because, as Castells noted, “The usual suspects were networks.” You couldn’t arrest a network. 3 Before we can go much further in figuring out how network power might be used - to close up those six worrisome paradoxes, to create massive new companies (or invest in t...

… book is an intellectual treat for anyone who wants to understand not so much “what matters” as whether anything really can matter, in an objective sense. Many people assume that rationality is always instrumental: reason can tell us only how to get what we want, but our basic w...

… male plants making male seeds unwanted in a production field. We note that seed mix (male and female) costs are significantly lower than feminized seed costs (incremental work is needed to increase the supply of feminized seeds). Conversations with industry participants indicat...

…here he would begin on a quest to understand this age and how best to prepare. How to cultivate oneself? “You know you can’t just understand this easily,” Master Nan said sharply. He was a little angry with me, I could see, for asking such a direct question - and he was also usi...

…h TV series "The Science of Sleep and Dreams": (i) Have there been sufficient breakthroughs in Sleep and Dreams (significantly beyond traditional understandings) to justify a major TV series? (ii) Even if 'yes' to (i), is now the proper time for such a foundational series, or are...

…complexity led to an exponential increase in the expressive power of the network. If you lose your keys in a room, you can search for them. If you’re not sure which room they’re in, you have to search all the rooms in a building. If you’re not sure which building they’re in, you...

…e yourself logged in, and [ll log in if I need something. [I tend to use Skype chat these days, as it’s encrypted and I can avoid a separate IM program. ] Do you prefer a phone call or an e-mail to answer a quick question? PHONE CALL, absolutely. DO NOT e-mail me for anything u...

…r species-ism. Many people would find the cultivation of such a ruthlessly skeptical approach morally repugnant, and we can anticipate that even the most proficient system-users would occasionally succumb to the temptation to “befriend” their tools, if only to assuage their disco...

…ds steady, blacking out from time to time, and seeing very badly. In other words, instilling a new emotion into the mix can alter values. Make people afraid of something they want to do and that fear will manifest itself when it is time to do it. Emotions can be induced into subc...

with trying to “describe cancer mathematically.” Epstein preempts Nowak’s explanation (which I’m not quite getting): “Think of cancer the same way as you think of a terrorist group. The NSA has been able to thwart a great number of terrorism acts by intercepting communication sig...

… the other Arab despots and autocrats, whether of the oxymoronic “republics” or the royals, will depend on how far they can get out in front of their citizens’ demand to be heard. You see, you can’t do Hama any more. You can’t do the Iraqi marshes. Perhaps you can kill dozens, b...

…aisons forms, it evolves, grows and feeds on itself. We have arrived at excessive harms. We have arrived at evil. What can we do? How can we harness our understanding of evil to predict when it might occur again? Can we reduce future danger? Future dangerousness Why do we allo...

…above, these ranges is strictly smaller than the range of values over which CWOL is an equilibrium. To summarize, CWOL can occur in equilibrium, and this equilibrium is subgame per- fect, is stable, and has a sizable basin of attraction in the replicator dynamics. Moreover, we e...

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…he twelve cognitive processes we have been referring to, and because of that, progress is much harder to ascertain. You can test theory. It is harder to test practice. One can gain a lot of knowledge about what doesn’t work while practicing and still produce nothing worthwhile. T...