This was such a roller coaster because I’m like nah this thing isn’t fast and then it showed me up

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

paired with

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

It was an absolutely perfect combo earlier this summer

I’m about to turn 23 so this is terrible news before my birthday

I adore this! Slartibartfast may just need a new character sheet

Beam. He may be half a letter off but still vibes with all his bean friends and they except him just the way he his

He’s been working there for a few years but hasn’t hosted until this week. He killed it all three nights though

This is my 10th P4A!

*This* is what the internet is for

“There is yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer”

Reminds me of The Last Question by Isaac Asimov
users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/th...

This sounds like old Hank at a retirement home waiting for someone to say “that’s nice, dear” and give him some apple juice

So some degree of ignorance is required to make the world go ‘round.

How do we develop systems with this in mind? How do we accredit real experts? How can we develop education that teaches the next generation to think critically?

This is a big, tough problem but I don’t think it’s unsolvable.

I think it’s important not to let the chaos overshadow the beauty, though. Through specialization we’ve developed such a detailed understanding of science.

Because we can have people who spend their entire career within a hyper-specific field we unlock innovations like the mrna vaccine

On one hand it’s absolutely amazing. We’ve built so many things that no one person can understand fully.

On the other hand it can be so chaotic that it becomes dysfunctional, even within a single institution.

As a group we become more powerful than one, but that’s not at all a linear relationship

When I said “this can’t get any worse” I was not, in fact, asking the universe for an additional two weeks of Covid. That was not a dare, and I’d appreciate if the genie terribly misinterpreting my wishes could please stop

I’d make the argument it’s actually very Sci and not very Fi for the fish