Showing posts with label intellectual history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label intellectual history. Show all posts
Thursday, April 13, 2023

Katherine Dee: Culture, Identity, and Isolation in the Digital Age — Manifold #33

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  Katherine Dee is a writer, journalist, and internet historian.  Steve and Katherine discuss:  0:00 Introduction  1:15 Katherine’s early li...
Thursday, January 19, 2023

Dominic Cummings: Vote Leave, Brexit, COVID, and No. 10 with Boris — Manifold #28

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  Dominic Cummings is a major historical figure in UK politics. He helped save the Pound Sterling, led the Vote Leave campaign, Got Brexit D...
Thursday, December 15, 2022

Geoffrey Miller: Evolutionary Psychology, Polyamorous Relationships, and Effective Altruism — Manifold #26

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  Geoffrey Miller is an American evolutionary psychologist, author, and a professor of psychology at the University of New Mexico. He is kno...
Thursday, October 20, 2022

Discovering the Multiverse: Quantum Mechanics and Hugh Everett III, with Peter Byrne — Manifold #22

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  Peter Byrne is an investigative reporter and science writer based in Northern California. His popular biography, The Many Worlds of Hugh E...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

The Future of Human Evolution -- excerpts from podcast interview with Brian Chau

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The transcript excerpts below are from my recent conversation with Brian Chau (aka Cactus Chu) on his podcast. Segments begin at 47m and 1h0...
Monday, September 05, 2022

Lunar Society (Dwarkesh Patel) Interview

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  Dwarkesh did a fantastic job with this interview. He read the scientific papers on genomic prediction and his questions are very insightfu...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

ManifoldOne podcast

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Please visit  Manifold1.com First episode is up! James Lee on Polygenic Prediction and Embryo Selection
Friday, December 31, 2021

Happy New Year 2022!

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Best wishes to everyone :-) I posted this video some years ago, but it was eventually taken down by YouTube. I came across it today and thou...
Sunday, November 14, 2021

Has Hawking's Black Hole Information Paradox Been Resolved?

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In 1976 Stephen Hawking argued that black holes cause pure states to evolve into mixed states. Put another way, quantum information that...
Tuesday, September 07, 2021

Kathryn Paige Harden Profile in The New Yorker (Behavior Genetics)

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This is a good profile of behavior geneticist Paige Harden (UT Austin professor of psychology, former student of Eric Turkheimer), with a...
Monday, July 19, 2021

The History of the Planck Length and the Madness of Crowds

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I had forgotten about the 2005-06 email correspondence reproduced below, but my collaborator Xavier Calmet reminded me of it today and I was...
Sunday, May 02, 2021

40 Years of Quantum Computation and Quantum Information

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This is a great article on the 1981 conference which one could say gave birth to quantum computing / quantum information. Technology Revie...
Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Academic Freedom Alliance

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We live in an era of preference falsification.  Vocal, dishonest, irrational activists have cowed all but the most courageous of the few rem...
Wednesday, February 03, 2021

Gerald Feinberg and The Prometheus Project

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Gerald Feinberg (1933-1992) was a theoretical physicist at Columbia, perhaps best known for positing the tachyon -- a particle that travel...
Saturday, September 12, 2020

Orwell: 1944, 1984, and Today

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George Orwell 1944 Letter foreshadows 1984, and today: ... Already history has in a sense ceased to exist, i.e. there is no such thing ...
Thursday, June 04, 2020

Leif Wenar on the Resource Curse and Impact Philosophy -- Manifold Episode #49

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Corey and Steve interview Leif Wenar, Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University and author of Blood Oil. They begin with memories of ...
Saturday, May 09, 2020

Pure State Quantum Thermalization: from von Neumann to the Lab

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Perhaps the most fundamental question in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics is: Why do systems tend to evolve toward thermal equili...