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Physicist Gell Mann said we need an 'Odyssean' education, 'integrative thinkers' who can take 'a crude look at the whole.' This feed has links on this theme

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jun 12

    New blog: the Apollo programme, the Tory train wreck, and advice to spads starting work today

    13 replies 54 retweets 136 likes
  2. 23 hours ago

    It's silly to be pessimistic re talks as if future defined mostly by them. It isn't. It can be defined by what we choose to focus on & build

    6 replies 6 retweets 14 likes
  3. 23 hours ago

    Single Mkt is yesterday, we shd focus on future: bio engineering, AI, & new industries, new models for regulation/finance etc

    11 replies 6 retweets 28 likes
  4. 23 hours ago

    Leavers o/side Cabinet shd worry less re talks. Will be botched but not so important. Shd focus on new ideas where UK can create huge value

    7 replies 9 retweets 19 likes
  5. 23 hours ago

    3/ Similar to Munger’s point re UK being #1 economy w/out public companies, which are often dreadful organisations

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  6. 24 hours ago

    2/ ‘We should be talking about risk management & capital allocatn w/out a presumption that markets are the best way’

    2 retweets 4 likes
  7. 24 hours ago

    1/ Really good by on financial mrkets incl European errors viz whole approach to financial mkt regulation

    5 retweets 14 likes
  8. 24 hours ago

    Best thing Ive read on the problems of Basic Income ideas BUT maybe Kay/others underestimate exponential effects of automation/AI?

    schemes cannot work and distract from sensible, feasible and necessary welfare reforms.
    1 reply 4 retweets 12 likes
  9. Jul 5
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    7/ Am I less happy re REF result today than 24/6/16? No, just as happy. But I do have one big regret...

    15 replies 2 retweets 5 likes
  10. Jul 5
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    6/ Partic funny to see well-educated IN-ers ranting about a failure to have 100% confidence, with no awareness such a view is childlike

    9 replies 10 retweets 39 likes
  11. Jul 5
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    5/ ppl looking at politics are so gang-driven they're blinded if s/one says they aren't 100% confident in their predictions

    6 replies 11 retweets 28 likes
  12. Jul 5
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    4/ & political/media/twitter political discussion has no language/concepts for coping with probabilistic judgements made amid uncertainty

    10 replies 6 retweets 21 likes
  13. Jul 5
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    3/ Why have >90% misinterpreted? >90% looking at politics fit new data into a network of existing beliefs & thereby fool themselves

    4 replies 1 retweet 10 likes
  14. Jul 5
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    2/ Also accidentally did a great experiment showing amazing propensity of IN-ers who whine re 'lies' to comfort themselves w hallucinations

    2 replies 8 likes
  15. Jul 5

    1/ Accidentally did a great experiment to show how urge to fit new data to existing political beliefs overpowers actual words ppl read

    20 replies 17 retweets 38 likes
  16. Retweeted
    Jul 4

    Building the Gadget: A Technical History of the Atomic Bomb.

    6 retweets 13 likes
  17. Jul 5

    For all those newly interested in the branching histories of the referendum, knock yourselves out…

    8 replies 17 retweets 36 likes
  18. Jul 5

    2/ A core mission for post-Brexit UK shd be innovating with science regulatn/funding as per

    1 reply 3 likes
  19. Jul 5

    1/ continuing closed door science research will create NEW global catastrophic risks beyond known (CRISPR, AGI etc)

    5 likes
  20. Jul 4

    Fascinating talk by on science research that cd cause mega-deaths & what is to be done CC

    2 retweets 12 likes
  21. Jul 4

    Interesting paper: politicians strongly overestimate electorate’s conservatism & don’t learn from elections

    1 reply 8 retweets 30 likes

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