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A cocktail party. A terrorist cell. Ancient bacteria. An international conglomerate. All are networks, and …
This was very informative for me at the beginning when author unveils the powerlaw. The second half was less informative but was an enjoyable exercise of extrapolation that both helps to fixate concepts and flexibilise notions we already have. Overall a good pop science book
Harry August is on his deathbed. Again. No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, …
Harry August is on his deathbed. Again. No matter what he does or the decisions …
Amazing scifi premise, engaging pace and satisfying closure. I want to read stories of the club in other centuries.
Blockchain Radicals uncovers the radical political potential of the blockchain, showing how it can be used by the left in …
José Mauro de Vasconcelos: Rosinha, minha canoa (Portuguese language, 1963, Edições Melhoramentos)
Livro sobre o que se deve saber sobre respeito aos bons com a espécie e outras.
Examines the role of the unexpected, discussing why improbable events are not anticipated or understood properly, and how humans rationalize …
Peter Singer: Practical ethics (1993, Cambridge University Press)
For thirty years, Peter Singer's Practical Ethics has been the classic introduction to applied ethics. For this third edition, the …
What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much …
The book gives some interesting actionable insights about decision making but it's mostly for non technical audience because it explains some algorithmic concepts with common use language.
For thirty years, Peter Singer's Practical Ethics has been the classic introduction to applied ethics. …
I accept the premise that Singer uses to discuss most of the ethics issues presented in the book just like the implications of it. That said, while reading the book I realized that it could be possible that game theory consideration could have drastic implications in how we should interpret the "equality of consideration of interests" which is an utilitarian principle that drives decisions by maximization of a quantity. Whether this quantity is defined or not it out of the scope of this comment, yet I can say that in many scenarios of intelligent agents iterating the boundaries of the optimization differ a lot. The proportion of agents with specific strategies is also a parameter that is hard to measure but the difference that it causes implicates that the utilitarians' ethical principle of equal consideration of interests might be analysed from two perspectives. First, the perspective of a single agent …
I accept the premise that Singer uses to discuss most of the ethics issues presented in the book just like the implications of it. That said, while reading the book I realized that it could be possible that game theory consideration could have drastic implications in how we should interpret the "equality of consideration of interests" which is an utilitarian principle that drives decisions by maximization of a quantity. Whether this quantity is defined or not it out of the scope of this comment, yet I can say that in many scenarios of intelligent agents iterating the boundaries of the optimization differ a lot. The proportion of agents with specific strategies is also a parameter that is hard to measure but the difference that it causes implicates that the utilitarians' ethical principle of equal consideration of interests might be analysed from two perspectives. First, the perspective of a single agent on a given environment and configuration of population. Second, a societal perspective of what would be the best strategy if all agents would implement the same strategy. This insight will certainly make me dive deeper on both, ethics and game theory for policy making.
Frans De Waal: Our Inner Ape (Paperback, 2006, Riverhead Trade)
It's no secret that humans and apes share a host of traits, from the tribal communities we form to our …
