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You can’t control (well) what you can’t count
Samzdat’s posts that served as the basis of much of this episode:
Man as a Rationalist Animal, and
The Meridian of Her Greatness.
Also: The Use and Abuse of Witchdoctors for Life (not Witchdoctors Without Borders, as Eneasz misremembered)
Matt Freeman’s podcast – We’ve Got Worm
Also from Matt – The Daly Planet
Scott Alexander’s review of “Seeing Like A State”
And the original source material, for the purists. 🙂
Norman Borlaug’s dwarf wheat saved 1 billion people
GreenPeace blocks golden rice for no good reason
ChemTrails Turned My Frogs Gay
Our Robin Hanson interview on Age of Em
Kim Jong Il made a quilt of sparrow’s neck feathers
A photon teleported from Earth to Space – or was it?
Friendship is Optimal & Caelum Est Conterrens (different authors)
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Witchdoctors Without Borders is such a good pun.
Hi, not able to work out the spelling for what sounds like “metis”. Interested in researching it more
It is metis
Registering to this 🙂 there was a mention of two (?) articles about AI and addictive game from two perspectives from 1 hour 32 mins to 1:35 that mentioned Clash of Clans and “Friendship is optimal”
Did the speaker find these?
Relistening (autocorrect!)
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