Hacker News
- Anthropic Capitalism and the New Gimmick Economy (2016) https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26756 66 comments
- Why the West should be worried about Chinese Eugenics (2013) http://edge.org/responses/what-should-we-be-worried-about 70 comments
- What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody's Cognitive Toolkit? http://edge.org/responses/what-scientific-concept-would-improve-everybodys-cognitive-toolkit 53 comments
- Addiction to videogames explains the Fermi paradox? http://www.edge.org/q2007/q07_print.html#miller 22 comments
- A Post-Galilean Paradigm: A Conversation with Philip Goff https://www.edge.org/conversation/philip_goff-a-post-galilean-paradigm 6 comments philosophy
- David Chalmers and Daniel Dennett debate whether superintelligence is impossible https://www.edge.org/conversation/david_chalmers-daniel_c_dennett-on-possible-minds-philosophy-and-ai 90 comments philosophy
- The Space of Possible Minds https://www.edge.org/conversation/murray_shanahan-the-space-of-possible-minds 4 comments cogsci
- What Makes People Vote Republican? https://www.edge.org/conversation/jonathan_haidt-what-makes-people-vote-republican 8 comments politics
- “The Second Law of Thermodynamics is the First Law of Psychology” https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27023 5 comments science
- Verena Huber-Dyson May 6, 1923—March 12, 2016 mathematician and logician https://www.edge.org/conversation/vhd 6 comments math
- Edge.org Annual Question 2015: What Do You Think About Machines That Think? [122,100 words] http://edge.org/responses/what-do-you-think-about-machines-that-think 8 comments artificial
- Five linguists answered this year's Edge Question: Which Scientific Idea is Ready for Retirement? Answers from Ben Bergen, N.J. Enfield, Dan Everett, John McWhorter, and Dan Sperber http://www.edge.org/responses/what-scientific-idea-is-ready-for-retirement 14 comments linguistics
- Michael Shermer has now given his perspective on the is-ought discussion. Thoughts? http://www.edge.org/response-detail/23683 93 comments philosophy
- Encapsulated universes: how the languages we speak shape the way we think http://www.edge.org/conversation/encapsulated-universes 22 comments linguistics
- Adventures In Behavioral Neurology: V.S. Ramachandran explains mysteries of synesthesia, apotemnophilia and reflex sympathetic dystrophy. http://edge.org/conversation/adventures_behavioral_neurology 5 comments cogsci
- What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit? Ramachandran, Dawkins, and 150+ other experts weigh-in. http://edge.org/responses/what-scientific-concept-would-improve-everybodys-cognitive-toolkit 256 comments science
- Interesting article about the decline in violence through history http://edge.org/3rd_culture/pinker07/pinker07_index.html 8 comments history
- Cost of war:$170b a year. Cost to end all world hunger: $50b a year. WTF http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/story/72.html 67 comments politics
- What do you believe but cannot prove? http://www.edge.org/q2005/q05_print.html 820 comments askscience
- Edge: THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2011: “What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody’s Cognitive Toolkit? http://www.edge.org/q2011/q11_index.html 27 comments science
- "I believe that the "Bell Curve" wars of the 1990s, over race differences in intelligence, will seem genteel and short-lived compared to the coming arguments over ethnic differences in moralized traits. I predict that this "war" will break out between 2012 and 2017." http://www.edge.org/q2009/q09_4.html#haidt 47 comments science
- Time To Take The Internet Seriously - Computer scientist argues that the internet is evolving, not as a tool nor as a universe of answers, but as a giant thought process. Soon, everything will be structured as part of a lifestream http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/gelernter10/gelernter10_index.html 3 comments worldnews
- Q: How Has The Internet Changed The Way You Think? -- A: Sorry, John, no time to think about the Edge question. http://edge.org/q2010/q10_2.html#church 4 comments technology
- Edge: Robert Sapolsky on parasites manipulating mammalian behavior http://edge.org/3rd_culture/sapolsky09/sapolsky09_index.html 32 comments cogsci
- is the internet changing the way you think? (the Edge question for 2010) http://www.edge.org/q2010/q10_index.html 12 comments philosophy
- "How Does Our Language Shape the Way We Think?" (fascinating paper by Stanford professor) http://edge.org/3rd_culture/boroditsky09/boroditsky09_index.html 20 comments linguistics
- Does the empirical nature of science contradict the revelatory nature of faith? http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/coyne09/coyne09_index.html 12 comments philosophy
- Gödel and the nature of mathematical truth (fascinating read) http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/goldstein05/goldstein05_index.html 85 comments science
- Nassim Taleb on the market blowup: "A turkey is fed for a 1000 days—every days confirms to its statistical department that the human race cares about its welfare." http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/taleb08/taleb08_index.html 27 comments business
- Moral Psychology and the Misunderstanding of Religion http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/haidt07/haidt07_index.html? 4 comments philosophy
- A liberal psychologist's analysis of why people vote Republican http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/haidt08/haidt08_index.html 26 comments reddit.com
- What is the most important invention in the past 2000 years? http://www.edge.org/documents/invention.html 25 comments science
- "What have you changed your mind about?" The changes of mind that gave philosophers and scientists new insights http://www.edge.org/q2008/q08_1.html? 35 comments reddit.com
- Awesome Photo of Saturn, Backlit by the Sun (PIC) http://www.edge.org/documents/images/newrings_cassini1000.gif 16 comments reddit.com
- That heretic, Freeman Dyson, the global warming denier. http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dysonf07/dysonf07_index.html 6 comments science
- HERETICAL THOUGHTS ABOUT SCIENCE AND SOCIETY By Freeman Dyson http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge219.html#dysonf 5 comments science
- Children's intuitive psychology goes against science. Kids see purpose everywhere in nature and will tend to prefer creationist accounts of the origins of animals... http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bloom07/bloom07_index.html 14 comments science
- The Science of Happiness: A Talk with Daniel Gilbert http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/gilbert06/gilbert06_index.html 2 comments science
- The Natural History of Getting Rich http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/diamond_rich/rich_p2.html 4 comments reddit.com
Lambda the Ultimate
- What do you believe about Programming Languages (that you can't prove (yet))? http://www.edge.org/q2005/q05_print.html 215 comments LtU Forum
Linking pages
- Childhood's End | Edge.org https://www.edge.org/conversation/george_dyson-childhoods-end 82 comments
- We must learn to love uncertainty and failure, say leading thinkers | Psychology | The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jan/15/uncertainty-failure-edge-question 36 comments
- Brilliant Minds Answer The Question: What Scientific Idea Is Ready For Retirement? | IFLScience http://www.iflscience.com/brain/brilliant-minds-answer-question-what-scientific-idea-ready-retirement 36 comments
- In 2011, Jeffrey Epstein Was A Known Sex Offender. Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, And Sergey Brin Shared A Meal With Him Anyway https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/jeffrey-epstein-bezos-musk-billionaires-dinner 28 comments
- The atheist delusion | Books | The Guardian http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/politicsphilosophyandsociety/story/0,,2265446,00.html 17 comments
- The EDGE Question—2018 | Edge.org https://www.edge.org/the-edge-question%E2%80%942018 15 comments
- Marvin Minsky’s Marvelous Meat Machine | by Steven Levy | Backchannel | Medium https://medium.com/backchannel/marvin-minsky-s-marvelous-meat-machine-f436aec02fdf#.crbxjxju5 11 comments
- WHAT SCIENTIFIC CONCEPT WOULD IMPROVE EVERYBODY'S COGNITIVE TOOLKIT? | Edge.org http://edge.org/annual-question/what-scientific-concept-would-improve-everybodys-cognitive-toolkit 10 comments
- The New Science of Morality | Edge.org https://www.edge.org/events/the-new-science-of-morality 9 comments
- What scientific idea is ready for retirement? | Science and scepticism | The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jan/12/what-scientific-idea-is-ready-for-retirement-edge-org 6 comments
- The atheist delusion | Books | The Guardian http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2265395,00.html 6 comments
- The new age of ignorance | Science | The Guardian http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2115519,00.html 4 comments
- GitHub - torchhound/warren: Links to lose yourself in, curated from HN and other sources https://github.com/torchhound/warren 3 comments
- A History of Violence: Edge Master Class 2011 | Edge.org http://edge.org/conversation/mc2011-history-violence-pinker 3 comments
- WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? | Edge.org https://edge.org/annual-question/what-scientific-idea-is-ready-for-retirement 3 comments
- Feeling More Antsy and Irritable Lately? Blame Your Smartphone – Mother Jones http://m.motherjones.com/media/2014/06/nicholas-carr-smartphones-turning-us-impatient-irritable-monsters 3 comments
- ‘What Tech Calls Thinking’ Might Really Be Something Else - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/books/review/what-tech-calls-thinking-adrian-daub.html 3 comments
- The Challenge of Building Morally Responsible Machines https://theaiobserverx.substack.com/p/the-challenge-of-building-morally 2 comments
- Cognitive scientists on the future of science – Mind Hacks http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2006/10/cognitive_scientists.html 1 comment
- The real bias in Wikipedia: a response to David Shariatmadari | openDemocracy http://www.opendemocracy.net/media-edemocracy/wikipedia_bias_3621.jsp 1 comment