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Instapaper It Does Take a Village
It is possible to see Hrdy’s most recent book, Mothers and Others, as the third in a trilogy that began with The Woman That…

December 1 2011, 4:37am | Comments
Link Perfection Is Not A Useful Concept
Interview with Nick Bostrom Our long track record of survival–humans have been around for about 100,000 years–gives us some assurance that the natural risks have been rather small. If they…

June 20 2011, 9:21am | Comments
Link Wonderful: Robots Develop Own Language
Researchers at The University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology have taught robots how to develop their own language. That way, when they're about to deal the finishing blow…

May 19 2011, 2:11am | Comments
Link We are as gods and have to get…
The shift that has happened in 40 years which mainly has to do with climate change. Forty years ago, I could say in the Whole Earth Catalog, "we are as…

April 28 2011, 3:27am | Comments
Link Darwin Among the Machines (Samuel Butler, 1863)
The views of machinery which we are thus feebly indicating will suggest the solution of one of the greatest and most mysterious questions of the day. We refer to the…

March 3 2011, 8:55am | Comments
Link Technology Wants to Keep Evolving
Kelly argues that all technologies, from the stone ax to the computer chip, should be seen as a collectivity—the technium, which is “the greater, global, massively interconnected system of technology…

February 22 2011, 1:03pm | Comments
Link Did Humans Make Tools, or Did Tools Make…
Is our species, Homo sapiens sapiens, the first cyborg species? Gizmodo/New Scientist has a fascinating article up about how humans evolved as a result of technology. Timothy Taylor, an anthropologist…

August 27 2010, 5:14am | Comments
Link Big Ball of Mud
The notion of SHEARING LAYERS is one of the centerpieces of Brand's How Buildings Learn [Brand 1994]. Brand, in turn synthesized his ideas from a variety of sources, including British…

July 18 2010, 6:09am | Comments
Link The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ending Poverty
In the 1990s, Paul Romer revolutionized economics. In the aughts, he became rich as a software entrepreneur. Now he’s trying to help the poorest countries grow rich—by convincing them to…

June 12 2010, 9:21am | Comments
Link Evolution and Creativity: Why Humans Triumphed
Human evolution presents a puzzle. Nothing seems to explain the sudden takeoff of the last 45,000 years—the conversion of just another rare predatory ape into a planet dominator with rapidly…

June 1 2010, 2:53am | Comments
Link Open-Source A Movement in Search of a Philosophy
by Manuel DeLanda The plan of the essay is as follows. I will begin with a few definitions of technical terms ("source code", "compiler", "operating system") which are necessary to…

February 19 2010, 7:37am | Comments

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