The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation That Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe
by William Poundstone · 3 Jun 2019 · 283pp · 81,376 words
is constrained”: Bostrom 2002, 78. 14. Laplace as true originator: McGrayne 2011, 22–33. 15. 270, 276 tanks a month: See Wikipedia entry for the “German tank problem,” bit.ly/25O0xXE. A History of Grim Reckoning 1. “So I picked up the New York Times”: Gott interview, July 31, 2017. 2. “Copernican Cosmological
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths · 4 Apr 2016 · 523pp · 143,139 words
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