If you want to learn about cognitive biases all humans share, you might start with Daniel Kahneman’s ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’, or the paper he wrote in 1974 with friend and colleague Amos Tversky, ‘Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases’.Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner have given us an interesting way to practice doing so in their boo…

The Trigger-Happy Mouse Trap & Goal-Setting from First Principles: Book Review of Life 3.0 by Max TegmarkMax Tegmark shed tears after emerging from a London science museum in 2014, but by early 2017, his heart had warmed.In Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of AI, Tegmark explains his concern that all might be lost if AI security issues are not take…

Liberty’s Dim Light: Book Review of China Miéville’s “October: The Story of the Russian Revolution” and “Iron Council”China Miéville holds a Ph.D. (2001) in International Relations from the London School of Economics, is a member of the socialist democratic party in England, and the founding editor of Salvage, a quarterly of revolutionary arts and …

Theseus’s Ship has Sailed: Book Review of “The Strange Death of Europe”Douglas Murray urges readers to take notice of the fatal blow Europe’s politicians have already dealt the European civilization.Af Erik van Mechelen - Essays and Fiction

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