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A conference to discuss the hardest problems in all fields! Everyone talks about their technology that's just around the corner. We want to hear what has been keeping it around that corner for so long! To do that we want to organize an an interdisciplinary conference to discuss the hardest problems across all fields. To see if there's really enough problems, we're collecting problems first. The hardest problems from your field, and let people in completely different fields think about it! Are we sowing t...
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Comfort vs Freedom | Scott Jackisch's Weblog
https://sjackisch.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/comfort-vs-freedom
Scott Jackisch's Weblog. Cognitive science, futurism, and the Bay Area IdeaSpace. June 14, 2012. A friend recently sent me an essay attacking social media. That contained the following quote:. Consumerism promises that magical transformations are easy, available on demand, and that a self understood in terms of lifestyles and personality experiments rather than in terms of communal tradition, meaningful work, or the continuity of life experience can be a worthy expression of individual freedom. Dana Ream...
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Paleo future | Scott Jackisch's Weblog
https://sjackisch.wordpress.com/2012/11/07/paleo-future
Scott Jackisch's Weblog. Cognitive science, futurism, and the Bay Area IdeaSpace. November 7, 2012. No, the title of this post is not meant to refer to Paleo Future the blog about futures that never happened. One could make the argument that modern lifestyles are socially isolating and largely unhealthy in terms of diet and exercise. (In the developed world at least.) Promoters of the Paleo diet. Some nutrient rich grains if they could get their paws on some. Next please consider Dunbar’s Number. Village...
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American Gut Study on Indiegogo | Scott Jackisch's Weblog
https://sjackisch.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/american-gut-study-on-indiegogo
Scott Jackisch's Weblog. Cognitive science, futurism, and the Bay Area IdeaSpace. American Gut Study on Indiegogo. November 26, 2012. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email. Paul Bohm's blog.
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Stephen Pinker at the Long Now | Scott Jackisch's Weblog
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Scott Jackisch's Weblog. Cognitive science, futurism, and the Bay Area IdeaSpace. Stephen Pinker at the Long Now. October 9, 2012. I went to see Pinker’s talk at the Long Now. This evening. He is promoting his latest book “The Better Angels of our Nature” in which he proposes that many forms of violence have declined over time. His previous TED. Talk on this topic caused “Sex at Dawn” author Christopher Ryan to criticize. When evaluating causes of this great decline in violence, Pinker asserts that liter...
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Quantified Self: What am I tracking and why? | Scott Jackisch's Weblog
https://sjackisch.wordpress.com/2012/11/28/quantified-self-what-am-i-tracking-and-why
Scott Jackisch's Weblog. Cognitive science, futurism, and the Bay Area IdeaSpace. Quantified Self: What am I tracking and why? November 28, 2012. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email.
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Kurzweil at the Commonwealth club: How to Create a Mind | Scott Jackisch's Weblog
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Scott Jackisch's Weblog. Cognitive science, futurism, and the Bay Area IdeaSpace. Kurzweil at the Commonwealth club: How to Create a Mind. November 16, 2012. At The Oakland Futurist:. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out.
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Future Salon – Future of Health: Adam Bosworth, Christine Peterson, and Faheem Ahmed | Scott Jackisch's Weblog
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Scott Jackisch's Weblog. Cognitive science, futurism, and the Bay Area IdeaSpace. Future Salon – Future of Health: Adam Bosworth, Christine Peterson, and Faheem Ahmed. November 2, 2012. I attended my first Future Salon. This evening and heard Adam Bosworth. Give presentations. The salon was held at the SAP campus in Mountain View. Christine Peterson started out the talks with a presentation on Quantified Self. As a good resource to help with this. Bosworth talked about his new startup Keas.
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Jersey Shore is better than cat burning | Scott Jackisch's Weblog
https://sjackisch.wordpress.com/2012/11/04/jersey-shore-is-better-than-cat-burning
Scott Jackisch's Weblog. Cognitive science, futurism, and the Bay Area IdeaSpace. Jersey Shore is better than cat burning. November 4, 2012. I met a friend for a chat this evening and we walked down Piedmont avenue having the aristocrat vs commoner argument. I am not sure I fully understood his position, but it seemed to be that something was lost as the European landed aristocracy was supplanted by democracy. Sophisticated statescraft honed across centuries was cast aside and replaced with what? For pun...
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