Like many in my generation, I used to despise humans and feel hopeless about the future. The book “The Beginning of Infinity” single-handedly turned me into an optimist. It made me see humans and the universe in a completely different way. Here are some of the most important

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"Childhood is inverted. We grant freedom to explore only after we are burdened with adult responsibilities. The time to explore is when you are a kid, but this is precisely when we demand control." Wow, Podchemy said it better than I did.

12 Angry Men, extraordinary example of Popperian epistemology. “How do you know!?” “I don’t, I’m guessing!” Free on YouTube: youtu.be/GwIxcEvRq0g?si…

There have, we just don't know their names because people are not their customers.

A laptop for every kid was a goal, now that it’s achieved they take it away.

The boiling frog metaphor is great for alarmists - you won’t notice the danger, so listen to me! It’s also a myth, but does that even matter?

It’s regular ppl in a room, tasked with creating knowledge, a judgment. No experts. There is explicitly no authority. Everyone knows it’s up to them to figure it out. The focus is doubt, falsification, not confirmation/justification. Guesswork is the biggest surprise. It is

Even babies have reasons. (Shared despite the mocking tone - it’s not lack of patience, bad. It’s presence of caring, good.)

The obsession is weird.

A terrific introduction to Ray's ideas and delightful style. Highly highly recommend.

If your "learning" requires you to suppress your natural curiosity and enthusiasm, you're not learning. You're just enduring instruction.

Food and drink, it's not just about "good for you/bad for you."

"Money is a tool for reducing our uncertainty about the future. Undermining that tool raises social anxiety. Getting it back allows us to... ponder the possibilities of what we can do with the future. And it is thinking about the future that helps build civilization." 🎯

“The idea that children can be educationally free without being more generally free is incoherent. How does the mind know where ‘education’ ends and the rest of life begins? It can’t know. Everything is connected. Curiosity-driven learning means taking children seriously, not

"This goalpost shifting is common to moral panics." grimoiremanor.substack.com/p/no-conscient…