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"Events like the Oscars and the Super Bowl generate what game theorists call ‘common knowledge, which itself has value… If you thought nobody else was watching, would you really give up your Sunday night for such an event? Perhaps you would, but I would guess you are in the minority. The awareness that others are watching, and that you will be able to communicate with them about what happens, changes the cost-benefit calculus of the potential viewer."
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Ray Kurzweil’s Dubious New Theory of Mind
Scientist Gary Marcus:
Kurzweil suggests that his conclusions are “inescapable” and that the principles he espouses can be used “to vastly extend the power of our own intelligence.”
That would be big news. But does the book deliver?
