The Informed Millennial — Issue #3
Sat, Feb 25, 2017
The Informed Millennial is a weekly issue published on Medium.
Our thesis is that 1% of content contains 99% of information that’s necessary to have a better understanding of the world we live in.
The Informed Millennial mission is to find, collect and provide to you some of that precious content.
In this week issue — Kenneth Arrow, self driving cars, a conversation with Yuval Harari, mathematics, NASA discovery, an analysis of political correctness, Nick Szabo about collectibles, ancient money and conflicts.
Kenneth Arrow, Nobel-Winning Economist Whose Influence Spanned Decades, Dies at 95
A bit of sadness for the death of Kenneth Arrow, one of the greatest minds of our century — economist, nobel prize winner, thinker. This post summarises quite well his work and his life. Farewell, Prof. Arrow.
Unexpected Consequences Of Self Driving Cars
“These potential consequences are self-driving cars as social outcasts and anti-social behavior of owners. Both may have tremendous and unexpected influence on the uptake of self-driving cars. Both are more about the social realm than the technical realm, which is perhaps why technologists have not addressed them.”
The Post Human World
A conversation with Yuval Noah Harari, author of Homo Deus and Sapiens — one of the greatest books I’ve ever read.
“The reason to build all these mass social service systems was to support strong armies and strong economies. Already the most advanced armies don’t need [as many] people. The same might happen in the civilian economy. The problem is motivation: What if the government loses the motivation to help the masses?”
7 Earth-Size Planets Orbit Dwarf Star, NASA and European Astronomers Say
“This discovery gives us a hint that finding a second hearth is not just a matter of if, but when.”
This Man Is About To Blow Up Mathematics
Challenging the foundations of what we give for absolute, granted, given, is the hearth of science. Henry Friedman is doing just that, to mathematics.
“Mathematicians chose to move on. Incompleteness, they decided, had no direct bearing on their own work. The axioms commonly known as ZFC (the Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms plus the axiom of choice) that constitute today’s most commonly used foundation of mathematics provides a rigorous framework for proving theorems.”
Love is like cocaine
Even one’s personality can change, known as “affect disturbance.” Indeed, many smitten humans are willing to sacrifice for their sweetheart, even die for him or her. And like addicts who suffer when they can’t get their drug, the lover suffers when apart from the beloved — “separation anxiety.”
The Personality Of Political Correctness
In a recent study, Christine Brophy and Jordan Peterson conducted a very illuminating analysis of the personality of political correctness. They created a very comprehensive 192-item PC scale measuring PC-related language, beliefs, and emotions based on their reading of news articles, books, and research papers on political correctness.
Conflict And Collectibles Among The Yurok
One of the most underappreciated — yet important — aspects of the economy is our relationship with money, collectibles, and means of exchange. Money is much more “human” and “natural” than we think.
And there’s no better place than Unenumerated — Nick Szabo’s blog — to learn more about it.
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