My Parents Were Kind Of Like Me

People Try To Treat Technology As An Object, And It Can't Be. It Can Only Be A Channel.

There's No Question That Males Are More Violent And More Prone To The Type Of Hierarchical Organizations That Lead To War. War Is Largely A Male Activity. In Fact, There Is Some Correlation [between Making War And] Having An Excess Of Males In The Population.

The Wisdom Of Crowds Works When The Crowd Is Choosing The Price Of An Ox, When There's A Single Numeric Average. But If It's A Design Or Something That Matters, The Decision Is Made By Committee, And That's Crap. You Want People And Groups Who Are Able To Think Thoughts Before They Share

A File-sharing Service And A Hedge Fund Are Essentially The Same Things. In Both Cases, There's This Idea That Whoever Has The Biggest Computer Can Analyze Everyone Else To Their Advantage And Concentrate Wealth And Power. It's Shrinking The Overall Economy. I Think It's The Mistake Of Our Age.

To Me, To Say That War Isn't Evil Is To Say That Nothing Is Evil.