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dissidentvoice.org
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| | | | | With the advent of the social impact bond... if Adam Smith were around today, he'd be talking not just about the invisible hand of markets but the invisible heart of markets. - Sir Ronald Cohen (a.k.a. "high priest of money-making"). On the Rockefeller Foundation website, president Judith Rodin asks, "How can innovative finance shift charity to | |
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acoup.blog
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| | | | | It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week's post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is necessary, because in the United... | |
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dissentmagazine.org
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| | | | | Cross-posted from Waging Nonviolence. Although Saul Alinsky, the founding father of modern community organizing in the United States, passed away in 1972, he is still invoked by the right as a dangerous harbinger of looming insurrection. And although his landmark ... | |
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www.greaterwrong.com
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| | | Related to: Individual Rationality is a Matter of Life and Death, The Benefits of Rationality, Rationality is Systematized WinningBut I finally snapped after reading: Mandatory Secret IdentitiesOkay, the title was for shock value. Rationality is pretty great. Just not quite as great as everyone here seems to think it is.For this post, I will be using "extreme rationality" or "x-rationality" in the sense of "techniques and theories from Overcoming Bias, Less Wrong, or similar deliberate formal rationality study programs, above and beyond the standard level of rationality possessed by an intelligent science-literate person without formal rationalist training." It seems pretty uncontroversial that there are massive benefits from going from a completely irration... | ||
