so what have _you_ changed your mind about recently?

[jrtom]

http://www.edge.org/q2008/q08_index.html

Quite the list of intellectual luminaries, each (for the most part) talking about a change in opinion. Reading the whole thing would take (even) me quite a lot of time which I don't have right now. But there's some good stuff in there. Kind of like a series of conversations in a high-octane cocktail party, really.

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Party

[fdmts.livejournal.com]

God, I love that kind of high-octane cocktail party. I wander off on my usual jag about the singularity ... but I find a connection with someone who goes to Burma to do medical mission work ... and then we team up to explain the oil crash to some third person.

Re: Party

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me too. It's part of why I enjoy going to technical and scientific conferences, and not incidentally part of what I expect to be fun about working at Google. (And part of the reason why I'm still a bit nostalgic about living in the SF Bay area, which appears to attract people who enjoy this sort of thing. Seattle does, too, but I know more people in this category down there.)