by espeed on Feb 16, 2017 23:39:34 UTC 1487288374 | parent | context | on: None
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Haidt
Here is one of Haidt's TED talks that touches on the ideas of cooperation, group selection, and the free-rider problem:
http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_humanity_s_stairway_...
His Edge article on "Contingent Superorganism" https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10386
NB: Also see this recent post on "information theory and the foundations of life" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13496133
by espeed on Feb 16, 2017 23:29:50 UTC 1487287790 | parent | context | on: None
by espeed on Feb 16, 2017 08:22:16 UTC 1487233336 | parent | context | on: Scalable All-Pairs Similarity Search in Metric Spaces (2013) [pdf]
by espeed on Feb 16, 2017 03:58:41 UTC 1487217521 | parent | context | on: P-Adic Stability in Linear Algebra [pdf]
by espeed on Feb 16, 2017 02:06:52 UTC 1487210812 | parent | context | on: Entropy in Social Networks [pdf]
by espeed on Feb 16, 2012 19:21:36 UTC 1329420096 | parent | context | on: None
by espeed on Feb 16, 2012 17:18:52 UTC 1329412732 | parent | context | on: None
Actually, it probably helps both publicizing efforts. As the Internet-wide debate becomes "Backbone vs Ember," it puts the focus on those two techs and leaves other competitors out of the conversation.