The Present Jacob Frey

Paul Allen: The Singularity Isn’t Near “We call this issue the complexity brake. As we go deeper and deeper in our understanding of natural systems, we typically find that we require more and more specialized knowledge to characterize them, and we are forced to continuously expand our scientific theories in more and more complex ways. […]

So you want to reform democracy “If you wonder why you don’t see your idea already out there in the world, it’s because your idea didn’t work the hundreds of other times someone tried it.”

The Great Enrichment: A Humanistic and Social Scientific Account Deirdre Nansen McCloskey: “Ideas, not capital or institutions, made the modern world.”