Archive for 'Rational Misanthropy' Category

Non-deep thought

We’ll never have utopia. A world in which in many nations it is normal for the poor to be fat is, is a utopia by any measure from the perspective of someone who lived in 1900. Prompted to think about this after listening to part of this diavlog between a transhumanist and Massimo Pigluicci. Sometimes [...]

Graphs lack mass appeal?

Andrew Gelman, Red State, Blue State sales are a factor of 2^100 lower than they should’ve been: In his forthcoming book, Albert-László Barabási writes, “There is a theorem in publishing that each graph halves a book’s audience.” If only someone had told me this two years ago! More seriously, this tongue-in-cheek theorem, if true, defines [...]