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Vintage science writing is such a delight.

Should’ve sweat over mathematics to understand this more :(

There are those who hope that the good of a better understanding of man and society which is offered by this new field of work may anticipate and outweigh the incidental contribution we are making to the concentration of power (which is always concentrated, by its very conditions of existence, in the hands of the most unscrupulous). I write in 1947, and I am compelled to say that it is a very slight hope.

This book is giving me flashbacks to circa 2017 when I was like “maybe I’ll fuck around and get a second bachelors in electrical engineering”… I stopped myself then bc it would have been the stupidest thing, and yet here I am again. How did this happen lol.

Coming to you with a sizzling and timely take: I don’t like logarithms! They have never been intuitive to me.

“The third fundamental phenomenon of life, that of irritability” 😂