Stephenson was once in a kind of competition with William Gibson for the best techno-sci-fi novelist of our generation, but Stephenson won it long ago!
“There are a lot of things that, really, the only rational way to think about them is to think about them in terms of statistics, but that just doesn’t come naturally to people.” - Neal Stephensonhttps://podcastnotes.org/2019/07/21/stephenson/ …
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This is why whenever anything bad happens (which it inevitably will) -> OMG that’s horrible somebody needs to pass a law so that it never happens again. Ppl seldom stop to wonder if the unintended consequences of the new law will cause net damage to society.
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Only the educated understand this. Quote statistics that make certain ethnic groups look bad is racist. Therefore, to the uneducated, statistics are themselves racist.
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