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“The arrival of the virus was like an examination of state capacity. A handful of Western countries passed. Germany was an outstanding performer in Europe, while Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, and, surprisingly, Greece did well. New Zealand and Australia were champions on the Pacific rim. But most Western countries, particularly America and Britain, failed the test, humiliatingly so when compared with countries in Asia.”
― The Wake-Up Call: Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix It
― The Wake-Up Call: Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix It
“When considering automation, therefore, it is wrong to compare the abilities of a single human driver to that of a single self-driving car, or of a single human doctor to that of a single AI doctor. Rather, we should compare the abilities of a collection of human individuals to the abilities of an integrated network.”
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
“Children acquire spoken language instinctively but written language only by the sweat of their brow, because spoken language has been a feature of human life for tens or hundreds of millennia whereas written language is a recent and slow-spreading invention.”
― The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
― The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
“No learning rule can be entirely devoid of theoretical content nor can the tabula ever be completely rasa.” 13”
― The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
― The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
“The university’s retreat from public benefits damaged their independence as institutions. It damaged their intellectual ability to see over the horizon to the next economy and society and not just adapt to the current one. The retreat damaged their financial solvency, as it undermined the case for public good provision on which public universities depended to offer high-quality education on a mass scale. The public university could not be heard arguing that it absolutely had to offer mass quality. What good were the educated masses in a tech age when all the valuable workers could fit onto the Google bus?”
― The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them
― The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them
Max’s 2025 Year in Books
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