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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “memetics”

• Tiptoe or dash to the future?

  
  the Foresight Institute — Authority: 633
  Over at  Overcoming Bias , Robin Hanson wonders whether we should go fast or slow with tech development as we move toward a level of development (solar-system wide or interstellar civilization) where we are reasonably not likely to be wiped out in a single incident. He bases his analysis on how likely we are to ...
  6 days ago

• Original Sin

  
  the Foresight Institute — Authority: 633
  Mike Treder has a post at IEET that reads like a catechism of the Gaian religion. Now I’m a firm supporter of freedom of religion and Mike has a perfect right to believe what he does and indeed to preach it to whomever will listen. (And besides, Mike is a friend of mine.) But in this particular article he takes ...
  1 week ago

• The Ironies Compound

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 140
  Here’s a video that ironically (and wonderfully) registers and deconstructs a scene genre within action films: the Stoic ice-hero who walks, calm and unblinking, away from explosions: But wait. Isn’t the above YouTube itself a genre piece (the ironic song about cookie-cutter scene genres)?! Here’s the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Some Historical Perspective

  
  the Foresight Institute — Authority: 633
  At Bryan Caplan’s blog this morning there was an odd comment that stirred up a 40-year old memory: A single sentence in the Durants’ The Age of Napoleon makes me wonder whether I can trust a word they write on economic policy: The memory is that it was reading another part of the Durant’s Story of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Eine Kleine Nachtphysik

  
  the Foresight Institute — Authority: 633
  (or a little physics about climate change. Or at least a few clarifications about some of the points being raised.) In the wake of Climategate, a wide variety of mistakes and misapprehensions are being circulated on the Internet (as if that weren’t happening before). For example, in this article from the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Memetic Engineering and Memetic Engineer

  
  Chris Abraham — Authority: 435
  I am the proud owner of MemeticEngineer.com — I have owned it forever!  Anyway, I just wanted to share with you what memetic engineering is — I also own memes.org — I love the concept and theory around memetics! Memetic Engineer on Disinfo Coined by zoologist Richard Dawkins in his controversial ...
  4 weeks ago

• 1950s hidden camera footage?

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 632
  Does anyone have "hidden camera" footage of people from the 1950s and before having candid conversations? When theyre giving prepared/on-camera remarks in any footage I watch, people seem very very stilted - like unskilled actors. Im wondering if this was just the style of the "public voice" at the time, or if people ...
  4 weeks ago

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