Why We Keep Asking “Was Machiavelli an Atheist?”—more that somewhat about the history of atheism , and why modern people are apt to see atheists in eras before they were likely to exist. This essay is the last in a lively and fascinating history of the weirdness that was the politics and religion of Renaissance Italy. (Previously mentioned at LW.)
Michael O. Church has produced a ridiculously long series of blog posts that explores some interesting ideas he has about the workplace. He recently posted a summary of the last 20 posts, and the next, final post is intended to provide his solutions to the proposed problems. This only qualifies as a short online text if you forgo reading the first 20 blog posts, otherwise it’s like 90,000 words.
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Why We Keep Asking “Was Machiavelli an Atheist?”—more that somewhat about the history of atheism , and why modern people are apt to see atheists in eras before they were likely to exist. This essay is the last in a lively and fascinating history of the weirdness that was the politics and religion of Renaissance Italy. (Previously mentioned at LW.)
Michael O. Church has produced a ridiculously long series of blog posts that explores some interesting ideas he has about the workplace. He recently posted a summary of the last 20 posts, and the next, final post is intended to provide his solutions to the proposed problems. This only qualifies as a short online text if you forgo reading the first 20 blog posts, otherwise it’s like 90,000 words.
Artemov & Kuznets—Logical omniscience as a computational complexity problem.
A surprisingly good philosophy article from 1988: Howard, Cooperation in the Prisoner’s Dilemma.
Chevaleyre et al., A Short Introduction to Computational Social Choice.