Status Updates From The Taming Of Chance (Ideas...

So many names. I'm technically lagging a day behind, but yeah. Still interesting, but so many names.

A little dry at times and kind of digressive, but enjoyable so far. His discussions about eugenics are a little odd - he'll say how something like 'it's bad' and then be like 'but[...]' which is kind of weird. Oh well. I'm enjoying it though.

People are normal if they conform to the central tendency of [social and personal] laws, while those at the extremes are pathological. Few of us fancy being pathological, so 'most of us' try to make ourselves normal, which in turn affects what is normal. Atoms have no such inclinations. The human sciences display a feedback effect not to be found in physics. (2)