Links this week:
- Why progress has ground to a halt.
- Development professionals are biased like their subjects.
- Are schools failing?
- Cato Unbound – a libertarian perspective on extraterrestrial life.
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Behavioural economics. Behavioural and data science. Economics. Evolutionary biology.
David Brin’s piece seems to have its origins in a very good chapter he wrote in the book Pathological Altruism, edited by Barbara Oakley. Can recommend this……
I once had that book on my reading pile, but I wasn’t overly sold by a presentation I saw Oakley give on the concept, so it slipped down near the bottom. Maybe time to push back up.