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Standard decision theory says that all decisions combine two key factors: opinions on values, and beliefs about facts.
It is relatively easy to identify a list of things that we want, in the sense of preferring a life with more of them to less of them.
We humans have brains that guide our behavior, inserting complex “signal-processing” between input from our eyes, ears, etc., and output to control our hands, mouth, etc.
For the last year or so I’ve focused on the idea that our world’s dominant monoculture is slowly going maladaptive, due to cultural drift.
While anyone can buy stock in public firms, private equity firms are instead held by a more concentrated and exclusive set of owners.
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Have We Forgotten How to Listen to Lectures? JamesHoare Wed, 03/26/2025 - 09:04
?si=UQ0XdCH-cVGe26AC With his iconic Super Bowl ad in 1984, Ridley Scott began a tradition of accomplished filmmakers creating advertisements for Apple. In the years since, we’ve seen David Fincher shoot an ad promoting the iPhone 3GS, Michel Gondry direct a spot showcasing the iPhone’s cinematic features, and Spike Jonze craft a memorable ad for the HomePod. […]
The Livre de la vigne nostre Seigneur is an anonymous illustrated treatise on the Antichrist, Last Judgement, Hell, Heaven, Christ and Antichrist. It features 15 illustrations that mark the End of Days. What makes the series particularly interesting is its lack of human figures wracked in pain and horror. Elsewhere in the book, it’s … Continue reading "15 Signs of the Last Judgement and End of Days: 1450 – 1470" The post 15 Signs of the Last Judgement and End of Days: 1450 – 1470 appeared first on Flashbak.
Two days after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, the Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer took to the airwaves. Before his radio broadcast was cut off, he warned his countrymen that their führer could well be a verführer, or misleader. Bonhoeffer’s anti-Nazism lasted until the end of his life in 1945, when he was executed by […]
