Why It's So Difficult To Change People's Mindshttps://zerocontradictions.net/epistemology/difficult-to-change-minds
the potential of technology. This Ancap who came up with the conspiracy theory that the world’s governments want to depopulate the Earth as an explanation for why bad events
Belief networks, selective attention and blind spots, echo chambers, censorship, identities, and genetic differences make it difficult to change people's minds.
2blowhards.com: A Week with Gregory Cochran: Day Fivehttp://www.2blowhards.com/archives/2009/01/a_week_with_gre_2.html
poison arrow and spear technology'. However, in The Harmless People by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas there are several accounts of Bushmen hunting 'buffalo' with poison arrows. It wou
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The global warming scarehttps://davidpratt.info/warm.htm
8. New science and technology 9. Sources 1. Introduction According to the reigning ideology in climate science, most of the slight warming of the earth over the past century is du
Purposefulness of classification (IEKO)https://www.isko.org/cyclo/purposefulness.htm
— science and technology”. Gnoli ( 2025c , 8) cites the León Manifesto: [T]he connections between phenomena, those between phenomena and the theories studying t
This article defends the thesis that all classifications serve some purposes better than others, and therefore that the idea of an all-purpose classification is untenable. This sho
Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers "The Power of Myth"https://carljung.ru/Library/CampMoye.htm
-- the message that technology is not going to save us. Our computers, our tools, our machines are not enough. We have to rely on our intuition, our true being."
From Cyclops to Cyborg: Nietzsche, Posthumanism and ‘EmbodiedPerspectivism’ by Philip Mills, Kritikos - Vol. 18, Spring 2021https://intertheory.org/mills.htm
to the evolutions of technology for instance. [1] In this context, many Nietzsche scholars have considered the notion of Übermensch to be of central significance to posthuman stud
The Neanderthal theory of autismhttp://rdos.net/eng/asperger.htm
Mousterian technology. Their fires are usually found at arbitrary locations, and there is no evidence of activity constrained to shelters. The evidence seems to indicate Mousteria
A review of three books on historical eugenics: "War Against the Weak", "The Unfit", and "American Eugenics".https://www.euvolution.com/neoeugenics/historical_eugenics.htm
progress in science, technology and social complexity from the 17th century onward provides additional circumstantial evidence for the conjecture that the Age of Enlightenment was
These three recent books are an update of reviews on eugenic books. The purpose of most books on eugenics, is to link eugenics with genocide, the Holocaust, etc. But a careful read
Home page of Henry Wolkowicz; Professor of Mathematics in theDepartment of Combinatorics and Optimizationhttps://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~hwolkowi/
NEOS Server : library, technology, guide; solves LP, NLP, SDP, ... ; The Matrix Cookbook , a free math desktop reference for matrices. (and local dec/13 copy ) Mathematical Progra
home page of Henry Wolkowicz withinformation, software,and links to several areas of mathematics, e.g.optimization, nonlinear programming, semidefinite programming, matrixtheory, a
The Biotech Centuryhttps://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/r/rifkin-biotech.html
At the epicenter is a technology revolution unmatched in all of history in its power to remake ourselves, our institutions, and our world. Scientists are beginning to reorganize l
James Somershttp://jsomers.net/
The MIT Technology Review Is AI Riding a One-Trick Pony? * Toolkits for the Mind * Nautilus What Searchable Speech Will Do To You Backchannel: Should Surgeons Keep Score? * It tur
James Somers is a writer and programmer based in New York.
Why the World is the Way It Is: Cultural Relativism and It's Descendentshttp://www.quebecoislibre.org/younkins26.html
science, and technology. Western culture, the prime example of this type of culture, exhibits levels of freedom, opportunity, health, wealth, productivity, innovation, satisfactio
Relativism, the idea that truth is a historically conditioned notion that does not transcend cultural boundaries, has existed since the Greek era, some 2400 years ago. Relativism c
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