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The Forum of Interesting Things / The Virtual Afterlife Will Transform Humanity
« on: January 25, 2018, 12:44:36 am »
Endless fun: The question is not whether we can upload our brains onto a computer, but what will become of us when we do.

Fairly sure this is already at least one PKD story.

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The Forum of Interesting Things / Your smartphone📱is making you👈 stupid, antisocial 🙅 and unhealthy 😷.
« on: January 23, 2018, 03:40:26 pm »
Your smartphone📱is making you👈 stupid, antisocial 🙅 and unhealthy 😷. So why can't you put it down❔⁉️

Bonus: The Great Attention Heist

Apologies if I've linked this already... Repeat-Madness.

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Philosophy & Science / Facebook’s Fascinating (and Disturbing) History of Secret Experiments
« on: January 22, 2018, 04:32:42 pm »
Facebook’s Fascinating (and Disturbing) History of Secret Experiments

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General Misc. / AOM Podcast
« on: January 22, 2018, 04:31:26 pm »
Since I'm making folders for everything else...

Recent listens, though I'm pretty much up to date on this one:

- Why Smart People Do Dumb Things with Malcolm Gladwell
- How Big Tech Companies Are Hijacking Your Mind with Franklin Foer
- The Motivation Myth with Jeff Haden
- Tribe of Mentors — Short Life Advice From the Best of the Best with Tim Ferriss

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Philosophy & Science / An Initial Exploration of the Diminishing Role of Facts and Analysis in American
« on: January 22, 2018, 04:02:46 pm »
Link.

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Literature / 100 Books Every [Person] Should Read
« on: January 21, 2018, 11:30:06 pm »
100 Books Every [Person] Should Read

I was sure I posted this already so I hope I haven't repeat Madness again...

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Philosophy & Science / How Dolby is Measuring Human Emotions to Hack Hollywood
« on: January 18, 2018, 05:01:26 pm »
Link - Next Level with Lauren Goode.

I'm always on the lookout for evidence of Bakker-type-related manipulations out there in the world and I thought this worth sharing. This has been going on for years already but it's a concise short piece about the efforts of one company (Dolby of all places).


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General Misc. / A Hero's Journey Spans Just Two Minutes in This Hilariously Breakneck Short
« on: January 18, 2018, 04:54:57 pm »
Link.

I, for one, thought it hilarious.

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Philosophy & Science / The Cultural Evolution of Prosocial Religions
« on: January 18, 2018, 04:52:43 pm »
Link.

I've had two quality ideas, ever, for a TPB guest post (the first of which Bakker cleared me for back in... 2015 and, you know, life) and having recently started researching for the second again came across this neat piece (mostly unrelated to what I want to write about).

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Philosophy & Science / Everything That David Hume Published (Free)
« on: January 18, 2018, 04:45:30 pm »
DavidHume.org: A complete set of everything that David Hume published (including the handful of posthumous publications)

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Philosophy & Science / Fun Take on Logical Fallacies (with Robots!)
« on: January 18, 2018, 04:33:08 pm »

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The Forum of Interesting Things / How Death Got Cool
« on: January 15, 2018, 11:50:50 pm »
How Death Got Cool - The latest death trend is a cross between hygge and Marie Kondo: a sign that dying well has become a defining obsession of our time.

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General Misc. / The Tim Ferriss Show
« on: January 15, 2018, 02:10:20 pm »
I discovered this podcast a month or so ago because Tim Ferriss showed up separately on two different podcasts I already listened to. Apparently he hosts the single most popular podcast ever, period.

I've listened to a number of them going back but the impulse to link was the latest I've listened to: Jocko Willink: The Scariest Navy SEAL Imaginable…And What He Taught Me

Every episode I've listened to by him so far is stellar though.

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General Misc. / My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with Letterman
« on: January 14, 2018, 12:03:07 pm »
First episode with Obama. Next five episodes announced, one a month, I believe, with George Clooney, Malala Yousafzai, Jay-Z, Tina Fey, and Howard Stern.

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Philosophy & Science / The Kardashev Scale
« on: January 13, 2018, 01:57:12 pm »
Types of Advanced Civilizations: According to the Kardashev Scale

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