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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Jul 2017
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      1/ I am trying to generate a reference list of consequential non-fiction essays, help me out. Eg #1: As We May Think https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_We_May_Think …

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Jul 2017
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      2/ To count it must satisfy 3 conditions: i) the essay must produce a consequential idea internally, not merely convey consequential news

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Jul 2017
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      3/ It must ii) "disturb the peace" in some sense, outside the predictable institutional boundaries where it nominally has currency

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Jul 2017
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      5/ Example #2: George Keenan's Long Telegram http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/coldwar/documents/episode-1/kennan.htm …

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      6/ Example #3: Macaulay's Minute on Indian languages http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/macaulay/txt_minute_education_1835.html …

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Jul 2017
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      7/ So what other examples come to mind for you like these, that satisfy the rough criteria?

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        1. Matt Lehrer‏ @mattlehrer 8 Jul 2017
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          The Great Filter by @robinhanson http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/greatfilter.html …

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        2. Tom Carden‏ @RandomEtc 8 Jul 2017
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          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessness …

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Jul 2017
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          Yeah that's a good example

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        2. Tom Carden‏ @RandomEtc 8 Jul 2017
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          http://www.red3d.com/cwr/papers/1987/boids.html …

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Jul 2017
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          That's not a consequential essay but a paper about a consequential computer simulation model

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        1. kwindla‏ @kwindla 8 Jul 2017
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          Isaiah Berlin, "The Fox and the Hedgehog" - http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9981.html … - influential framework for thinking about thinking.

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        1. kwindla‏ @kwindla 8 Jul 2017
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          Martin Luther King, Jr. "Letter from Birmingham City Jail." - http://okra.stanford.edu/transcription/document_images/undecided/630416-019.pdf … - argument for civil disobedience (and much more).

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        2. strangeattractor‏ @strangeattracto 8 Jul 2017
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          I'm not sure what you're getting at, but what comes to mind are Swift's A Modest Proposal, and Malthus' essay on the Principle of Population

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        3. strangeattractor‏ @strangeattracto 8 Jul 2017
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          How To Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ (a book that's arguably a long essay, and she wrote other influential essays)

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        1. Diane Foley‏ @Tantele 9 Jul 2017
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          Jane Jacob's "The death and life of great American cities "

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