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Stuff related to my (@generativist's) dissertation.

At least tangentially.

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Reinventing Discovery
@michael_nielsen
(2021, 20)

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The Waning of the Middle Ages
Johan Huizinga (1924)

https://t.co/4S8EOG98kO

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The Sovereign Individual
Davidson & Rees-Moog

(1997, p.56)

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(p.316)

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Iain Banks

Use of Weapons

(p.417)

[Stuart Candy @futuryst]

“We have science, to deduce about the gargantuan what we, with our infinitesimal faculties, will never sense.”

From a terrific, classic (new to me!) essay by Scott Aaronson about big numbers: https://t.co/EIfvJ9L0Xm ht @kaburicrab @littmath

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Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
1867

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> Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.

George Orwell (December 24th, 1943)

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Corey @Doctorow
Walkway (p. 84)

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Terry Pratchett
Hogfather

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Goethe to Zelter
Weimar, 6th June, 1825.

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Walter Lippmann
Public Opinion
(1922, p.16)

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The Planet That Wasn't
By Isaac Asimov
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 1975 issue.

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Carl Sagan

The Demon-Haunted World:
Science as a Candle in the Dark

(2011[1997], p.241)

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Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play
James C. Scott
(2014, p.14)

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Death's End

Cixin Liu

(2010, p.116)

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A knot of knots in a network of social relations, in a network of chemical processes, in a network of emotions exchanged with its own kind.

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The Order of Time
Carlo Rovelli
(2017, p.98)

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A family is not a thing, it is a collection of relations, occurrences, feelings. And a human being? Of course it's not a thing; like the cloud above the mountain, it's a complex process, where food, information, light, words, and so on enter and exit. . .