Peter Watts Is An Angry Sentient Tumor: Revenge Fantasies and Essays
By: Peter Watts
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In more than fifty unpredictable essays and revenge fantasies, Peter Watts — Hugo Award-winning aut…
Want to Read $ 8.99"I love other creatures almost as much as I hate people"-Peter Watts, Peter Watts Is An Angry Sentient Tumor: Revenge Fantasies and Essays
"Turns out that when something gets cheaper, or more efficient, we just end up using so much more of the stuff that the savings disappear under a wave of increased consumption. They call it the “Jevons Paradox"-Peter Watts, Peter Watts Is An Angry Sentient Tumor: Revenge Fantasies and Essays
"Of course, no one’s immune to these biases; I’ve caught myself cherry-picking data on more than one occasion. To that extent we all live in glass houses. But there are ways of error-checking yourself, if you care to use them. The scientific method, at its heart, is a set of tools explicitly designed to break through bias and shine a light on the empirical information underneath. Recognizing our prejudices, we can overcome them. But one thing we cannot do—and it has taken me so very long to realize this—is reason successfully with those who reject such tools. Logic doesn’t matter to a Jehovah’s Witness. Fossils mean nothing to a creationist. All the data in the world will not change the mind of a true climate-change denier. You cannot reason with these people. You cannot take them seriously. It is a waste of energy to even try."-Peter Watts, Peter Watts Is An Angry Sentient Tumor: Revenge Fantasies and Essays
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