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Grand Futures by Anders Sandberg | Goodreads

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A sort of apotheosis, readable engineering theory slash cosmology slash analytic philosophy. Tour de force first-principles thinking across whatever damn fields he needs to think about to get the inference made. Dozens of little arguments, many of them new / research-level, many of them previewed on StackExchange. Also scholarship: 130 A4 pages of citations at the back. The version I saw was 1200 pages. Also an experimental test of fundamental epistemology: How far can a human mind leap and still land upright? If you work in muddy contested areas like politics or strategy or human stuff, it…

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