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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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“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
“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
“Transhumanists have a unique definition: Death is a malfunction of the human experience.”
― 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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“I set the date for the Singularity—representing a profound and disruptive transformation in human capability—as 2045. The nonbiological intelligence created in that year will be one billion times more powerful than all human intelligence today.”
― The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
― The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
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
Data Book Club
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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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A group for fans of Doctor Who related books/audios/comics/etc: Target Novelizations, Virgin New Adventures, Virgin Missing Adventures, BBC Eighth Do ...more
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For readers using the Amazon Kindle ebook device.
Darrin’s 2025 Year in Books
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