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- Anthropic Capitalism and the New Gimmick Economy (2016) https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26756 66 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
- 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
- Free Will, Determinism, Quantum Theory, and Statistical Fluctuations: A Physicist's Take (from edge.org) http://www.edge.org/conversation/free-will-determinism-quantum-theory-and-statistical-fluctuations-a-physicists-take 142 comments philosophy
- Encapsulated universes: how the languages we speak shape the way we think http://www.edge.org/conversation/encapsulated-universes 22 comments linguistics
- Can someone tell me if I'm completely misunderstanding the multiverse? http://www.edge.org/q2011/q11_1.html 14 comments askscience
- 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
- The New Science of Morality: Nine talks and discussions. (Crosspost from /r/lectures) http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/morality10/morality10_index.html 5 comments cogsci
- "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
- Turing's Cathedral, by George Dyson http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dyson05/dyson05_index.html 4 comments compsci
- is the internet changing the way you think? (the Edge question for 2010) http://www.edge.org/q2010/q10_index.html 12 comments philosophy
- 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
- Self Awareness: The Last Frontier - By V.S. Ramachandran http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/rama08/rama08_index.html 4 comments cogsci
- 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
- Remember the missionary who proved Linguistics was wrong? Yeah, turns out he didn't really http://www.edge.org/discourse/recursion.html 3 comments reddit.com
- Moral Psychology and the Misunderstanding of Religion http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/haidt07/haidt07_index.html? 4 comments philosophy
- what makes people vote republican even when it's against their self interest? http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/haidt08/haidt08_index.html 144 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
- Why space has three dimensions and time has one [pic] http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/serpentine07/images/tegmark1000.jpg 60 comments science
- 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
- As science becomes more and more important in dealing with the world's problems, Americans are falling farther and farther behind in scientific literacy. http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/coyne07/coyne07_index.html 56 comments reddit.com
- 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