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Friday, January 20th, 2012Rational Basis for Altruism
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011I’ve sent this to a number of people individually… So it’s about time I just posted a link to http://www.radiolab.org/2010/dec/14/one-good-deed-deserves-another/ and a firm recommendation that you listen. It’s a Radiolab story about altruism and evolution, rational good behavior, etc. I’m especially fond of the bit about the prisoner’s dilemma simulation, in which both Jesus and Lucifer are defeated by Tit-for-Tat.
All religions think they’re right…
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011but they’re just lacking perspective.
Information Waste
Friday, September 2nd, 2011Something I personally have struggled to come to terms with, being on the border of two generations… Captured well by the product/marketing brilliance that is Seth Godin:
Back home, missing a TV show was out of the question. If you didn’t see this episode of Mannix or Batman, it was likely you’d never get a chance, ever again.
And so we came to treat incoming data as precious. A lost email was a calamity. Reading everything in your RSS feed was essential. What if I miss something?
A new generation, one that grew up with a data surplus, is coming along. To this cohort, it’s no big deal to miss a tweet or ten, to delete a blog from your reader or to not return a text or even a voice mail. The new standard for a vacation email is, “When I get back, I’m going to delete all the email in my box, so if it’s important, please re-send it next week.”
This is what always happens when something goes from scarce to surplus. First we bathe in it, then we waste it.
New Ideas, an Uphill Battle
Thursday, April 21st, 2011From Kevin Kelly, Natural History of a New Idea:
1) Outright wacko.
“This is worthless nonsense”2) Odd but unproven.
“This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view.”3) True but trivial.
“This may be correct, but it is quite unimportant.”4) Obvious.
“What’s new? This is what we’ve said all along.”
