4. That pseudoscience will gain ground. – Helena Cronin, author, philosopher it already has, it's called man made globull warming...
Posted on 07/16/2013 7:08:31 PM PDT by Usagi_yo
Every year, the online magazine Edge--the so-called smartest website in the world, helmed by science impresario John Brockman--asks top scientists, technologists, writers, and academics to weigh in on a single question. This year, that query was "What Should We Be Worried About?", and the idea was to identify new problems arising in science, tech, and culture that haven't yet been widely recognized.
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armed law abiding citizens that aren’t forced to retreat...
Sounds like a fun gal to be stuck in an elevator with for 20 hours.
152. Penis embargo of 2014
Ok .... Now I have to go read this crap .....:o)
Too funny !
OP agrees with you. Just separate the wheat from the chaff. I was hardly interested in who said what, that's strictly paranthetical.
Agree. I want to know who decided to put on the list.
Arianna Huffington - not one of my choices for the 150 smartest people.
Yes: Brian Eno leaps to mind!
While it may have sounded somewhat awkward to laymen (for whom it was actually intended), it was an attempt to lay out a basic grid for threat assessment. Unknown unknowns would be a Black Swan event.
No way to prepare, no way of really even knowing what hit you until you're well into the event or problem. Blindsided by something you couldn't even envision prior, more or less.
Three of them may have been aware of the Zimmermen show-trial:
12. That search engines will become arbiters of truth. —W. Daniel Hillis, physicist
34. The social media-fication of science writing. –Michael I. Norton, Harvard Business School prof
(he should have said “everything” instead of limiting his remark to “scirncr eriting)
40. We need institutions and cultural norms that make us better than we tend to be. It seems to me that the greatest challenge we now face is to build them. –Sam Harris, neuroscientist
Yes...the Black Swan. Gotta hand it to the person who coined that phrase. Perfect.
4. That pseudoscience will gain ground. – Helena Cronin, author, philosopher it already has, it's called man made globull warming...
Then I will be happy and serene regardless of what is happening around me.
That worries the begeezus out of me!
bfl
I'm sure you two could have a nice long discussion about her opinion of men.
For one this:
The 150 Things the World’s Smartest People Are Afraid Of.
Should read this:
The 150 Things the World’s Smartest People Fear.
Never end a sentence with a preposition!
My biggest fear - that the people who wrote those answers are the smartest people in the world.
If so, we’re doomed.
151. That we will be unable to live without the internet. –Daniel C. Dennet, philosopher
That we've lost the concept of a limited set and that editors will just keep going past 150.
Oh, wait, I see the problem.
46. Stress. –Arianna Huffington, aggregationist extraordinaire
The list is of 150 things the world's smartest people are afraid of and one inane comment by Arianna.
Evolution is a big fat lie.
Great post, thanks. I also got bogged with interest at the second one down by Taleb who wrote “The Black Swan” and “Antifragile.”*
These all seem very interesting, and all seem worth reading through even is some are stupid and I disagree! This is a long and complicated compilation of essays, NOT just a slide show for clicks!
I think few if any Freepers here have actually read and thought about all of these 150 essays in the time since this article was posted on FR! (I am impressed by anyone who really did! Tell us so we can clap for you!) It’s the kind of long publication you pick at a little, or you work through.
You will learn on some...
You will get thinking practice on some...
You will get CRITICAL thinking practice on some that are stupid...
And on the things stupid, with which you disagree, you will learn the way that those people think, so you can be the opposition if it comes to that!
It is WAY less irksome to read this than reading posts at “DU” to keep up with the bad guys!
What We Learn From Firefighters
How Fat Are the Fat Tails?
Check this one out Douglas T. Kenrick believes that intelligence is the same as having a high level of education. Only an intellectual could honestly believe that. He also incorrectly interprets the reason why both Canada and America have the same IQ in their highest five % of the population 120+ , yet the lowest 5% of America is a full 5 pts lower than that of Canada's lowest 5%. 75 Vs 80.
He links this to large families among poor people but doesn't old that the data may show a much less homogenized society in the U.S. with a large population of African and Native American descendants.
Morons of intelligentsia, save us from the intelligent idiots!
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