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People under pressure don’t reflect: to run fast, you look straight ahead — not side to side. It’s difficult to generate new ideas when focused on delivery. Innovation requires free time for thinking. The typical Agile environment creates
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“Anything that uses unbroken, infallible logic will, by its nature, attain pure evil.”
― The Transhumanist Wager
― The Transhumanist Wager
“Because politics is the science of the possible, it only appeals to second-rate minds. The first raters only interested in the impossible”
― The Fountains of Paradise
― The Fountains of Paradise
“But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it works but what it does when it’s stuck. —MARVIN MINSKY”
― The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
― The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
“Give every sane and rational person a big red button to push to achieve instantaneous omnipotence, and all of them would quickly jam their fingers down on it.”
― The Transhumanist Wager
― The Transhumanist Wager
“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.”
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The WTF? Book Club
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The book club for those who like to expand their reading tastes beyond the current fads and aims to introduce readers to great cult and obscure author ...more
Beatdom
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Beatdom is the world's most popular Beat-themed literary journal. Now we have a Goodreads group, where you - the reader, contributor or passer-by - ca ...more
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A place to discuss books about artificial intelligence, data, and technology with a social impact. We read 4 books a year, which are selected using a ...more
Doctor Who: The Library of Carsus
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Amazon Kindle
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For readers using the Amazon Kindle ebook device.
Darrin’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Darrin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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41 friends
2,059 books
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754 books
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1,433 books
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200 books
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101 books
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154 books
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119 books
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