This doesn’t really seem like news to me. Axelrod has been talking about the evolution of cooperation with his computer tournaments for decades.
Category Archives: Science And Society
The Shrinking And Withering Middle Class
Yes, they are pissed.
[Update a while later]
Idiocracy has arrived.
Way ahead of schedule, but that what happens when you hand the educational system over to Marxists, and promote mediocrity.
Sabine Hossenfelder
“How I fell out of love with academia.”
Science is badly broken, as is university research (of course, lots of things about universities are badly broken).
Public Health’s Expert Failure
Carl Schramm on the ongoing failure of the CDC.
[Update a while later]
It wasn’t just Fauci; how the Deep State played Trump.
The Samizdat Prize
An interview with the winners: Miranda Devine, Matt Taibbi, and Jay Battacharya. Well deserved.
Twilight Of The Wonks
A long, but interesting history.
What Is Space For?
A thoughtful essay at The New Atlantis (in which, in the next issue, I’ll have a review of Zubrin’s new book on Mars).
Near-Future SF
Yes.
Going Woke And Going Broke
Why our institutions keep doing it.
Vernor Vinge
RIP.
[Friday-morning update]
Reflections from Noah Smith.
[Monday-morning update]
Glenn Reynolds remembers.
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