It was in The Road to Reality and he disclaimed any discussion of conscious awareness there

Wanted to see what Claude thought about it, turns out he's censored. Really quick on the trigger.

I haven’t read this yet but I admire the title. (Library booksale)

Thomas Gold led an unusual life even as a teen

Asimov in 1986 predicts computers could eventually write essays and do other human creativity, but won’t because that’d be dumb

Post-Sputnik era pop science that expected you to be into diagrams, graphs, numbers, algebra, engineering.

Tidbit: Wegener (continental drift guy) as lonely voice on the right side of *another* epistemic scandal

Recent reading. Good book on 4 case studies of normal science impeding scientific progress in geology & climate. I admit I used to be more down on Kuhn.

This book was okay background reading for the superconductor tizzy today. My recent quote-post was from it.

I thought this concern about referees was exaggerated

As charming as the preceding books
(I almost typed ‘harming’)

New Yorker pieces on geology. Two especially interesting bits:
1. James Hutton wrote about natural selection in the late 1700s. (He was basically the founder of geology.)
2. There’s a substantial amount about how geologists took the plate tectonics revolution …

Recent book on classic games: history and how humans are taking the intro of superhuman players in almost all of them. By former 538 writer. Learned many interesting bits, though it’s still a subject I could’ve put off till *after* the Singularity.

Meaty pop sci on observation of black holes, AGNs, GRBs, etc. Predates LIGO by a few years. Plenty I didn’t know; last read about such things ~90s.

Kitty