LET’S ASPIRE TO MORE THAN MAKING OURSELVES OBSOLETE Max Tegmark Max Tegmark is an MIT physicist and AI researcher; president of the Future of Life Institute; scientific director of the Foundational Questions Institute; and the author of Our Mathematical Universe and Life 3.0: Be...
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“SURVIVING THE CENTURY’ The inaugural Carl Sagan Memorial Lecture Cornell University, 8 May 2017 It’s a great honour to give this Carl Sagan lecture. The ideas he stood for need proclaiming louder than ever today. We need an optimistic vision of life’s destiny --- in this world...
Creativity 301 TRY ANSWERING IN YOUR OWN TIME Another famous, but clichéd, problem is of you to draw four straight lines through these nine points without lifting the pen from the paper. Can you do it? e ° ° e e ° * e e TRY ANSWERING IN YOUR OWN TIME I won't put the answers...
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23 disciplines keep a chokehold on how younger academics think and do research. Today, the single most popular form of development dissertation in both economics and political science is a randomized micro-experiment in which the graduate student goes out into the field and stud...
120 Teaching Minds how best to throw a rock in order to hit the cat. For many of these things, hypotheses can be formed, discussions about what makes a good hypothesis can be had, and ideas for testing out hypotheses can be sought. Maybe these would just be thought experiments (...
Chapter Five: Fishnet In which we learn why networks spread so quickly. 1. In 1959 a young aeronautical engineer named Paul Baran, who had been working at Howard Hughes’ aircraft design factory in Los Angeles, arrived for his first day at work at a low-slung, modern building alo...
June 8, 2011 specifically, how do we get businesses to do more in terms of hiring, spend less on redtape, less on bureaucracy, and reduce the regulatory burden in smart ways? The current administration has said some of the right things but actually moved in the wrong direction....
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How to Teach the Twelve Cognitive Processes 127 what is inside each egg by shaking and listening to the sound generated. After he takes a first guess, show him the list of what items are in each egg and have him guess again. See if he changes his mind about some of the previous...