“Though all Christians start a wedding invitation by solemnly declaring their marriage is due to special Divine arrangement, I, as a philosopher, would like… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“It’s fairly intuitive that never exploring is no way to live. But it’s also worth mentioning that never exploiting can be every bit as… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“Forrest Gander: "Maybe the best we can do is try to leave ourselves unprotected. To keep brushing off habits, how we see things and… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“We asked Shoup if his research allows him to optimize his own commute, through the Los Angeles traffic to his office at UCLA. Does… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“look no further than Peter A. Lawrence’s developmental biology text The Making of a Fly, which in April 2011 was selling for $23,698,655.93 (plus… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“Though time management seems a problem as old as time itself, the science of scheduling began in the machine shops of the industrial revolution.… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life. —JOHN STUART MILL” — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
Pleasantries are low entropy, biased so far that they stop being an earnest inquiry and become ritual. Ritual has its virtues, of course, and… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“When our expectations are uncertain and the data are noisy, the best bet is to paint with a broad brush” — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
