Raw Thought Raw N Rve E

Raw Thought Raw N Rve E

AARON SWARTZ RAW THOUGHT RAW N E RV E INSIDE THE MIND OF AARON SWARTZ RAW THOUGHT RAW N E RV E INSIDE THE MIND OF AARON SWARTZ DISCOVERY PUBLISHER Book Cover, Art Design, Concept and Editing: Copyright 2014 © Discovery Publisher Book Content: Copyright © Aaron Swartz The pricing for this compilation and special edition of Aaron’s writings has been purposely set low on Kindle, iBooks and Nook. Because of the high cost involved in publishing an 824-page book in 5.5x8.5” format via Print on Demand and through Amazon Extended Distribution, its price couldn’t be set any lower. Author : Aaron Swartz Editor in Chief: Adriano Lucchese Discovery Publisher 616 Corporate Way, Suite 2-4933 Valley Cottage, New York, 10989 www.discoverypublisher.com [email protected] facebook.com/DiscoveryPublisher twitter.com/DiscoveryPB New York • Tokyo • Paris • Hong Kong TABLE OF CONTENTS WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? 2 A Word from the Publisher 3 What is going on here? 7 Hello, world. 9 ECONOMICS, POLITICS & PARODY 12 A Sad Day for America 13 Unspeakable Things 14 Money and Politics 15 The Facts About Money and Politics 16 The Politics of Lying 17 Shifting the Terms of Debate: How Big Business Covered Up Global Warming 19 Making Noise: How Right-Wing Think Tanks Get the Word Out 22 Endorsing Racism: The Story of The Bell Curve 24 Spreading Lies: How Think Tanks Ignore the Facts 26 Saving Business: The Origins of Right-Wing Think Tanks 28 Hurting Seniors: The Attack on Social Security 30 Fighting Back: Responses to the Mainstream Media 32 An Inconvenient Truth 35 The Attraction of the Center 36 Talking Right 38 The Invention of Objectivity 40 The World Is Watching 42 Mysteries of the Earth-Bound Human 44 Trials of Testing 47 The Truth About the Drug Companies 51 The Case Against Lawrence Summers 54 Philip Zimbardo: on the Psychology of Evil 60 Why is Big Media losing viewers? 64 IV • RAW THOUGHT • RAW NERVE AARON SWARTZ Jefferson: Nature Wants Information to Be Free 66 Counterpoint: Downloading Isn’t Stealing 69 Our Brave Censors 71 Because We Can 72 I Hate the News 74 Google and the Gradient 77 Founder’s Syndrome 80 Up With Facts: Finding the Truth in WikiCourt 82 What Journalists Don’t Lessons from the Times 85 Social Class in America 90 Our Next Superjumbo 91 The God Who Wasn’t There (And The One Who Was) 92 What’s Freedom? 98 Freakonomics 101 The Immorality of Freakonomics 104 The Conservative Nanny State 106 What is Elitism? 109 A Trip to the Courthouse Part 1 111 A Trip to the Courthouse Part 2 114 Free Speech Because We Can 118 Identity Fetishism 120 Drugs and Guns 122 Medium Stupid 124 The Goog Life: how Google keeps employees by treating them like kids 126 Competition of Experimentation? 128 The Enemy Too Close to Home 130 John Hockenberry on Reporting the War at NBC 131 Newspeak™ 134 This Television Life 135 Reagan, Star Wars, and the End of the Cold War 137 Why You Shop At Wal-Mart Economics Eats Itself 142 A Call for Science that Matters 144 Secured Leisure 146 The Handwriting on the Wall 147 Judgment Day 152 The Visible Hand: A Summary 155 TABLE OF CONTENTS DISCOVERY PUBLISHER • V Slaves of Some Dead Sociologist 161 The False Consciousness Falsehood 164 Simplistic Sociological Functionalism 167 Tectonic Plates and Microfoundations 168 HOWTO: Fix the News 171 A Theory of Change 173 Capital and its Complements Summary 177 The Percentage Fallacy 179 Rethinking Hyperbolic Discounting (or, The Percentage Fallacy, Continued) 181 High Gas Prices Are Reagan’s Fault 182 What Could Happen 183 Economic BS Detector 186 Cass Sunstein, Concern Troll 188 How Depressions Work 190 Who Really Rules? 193 Journalistic Capture and Fixing CNBC 196 In Defense of Elections 198 A 24 Puzzle 201 Investigative Strike Teams 203 Transparency is Bunk 206 Keynes, Explained Briefly 209 How Policy Gets Made: A Primer 216 The Median Voter and the Mixed Voter 218 A Political Startup 220 The Trouble with Nonprofits 225 Subjectivism 228 Because We Can 231 Googling for Sociopaths 233 Fewer Representatives or More Monitors? 235 When Is Transparency Useful? 237 The Reason So Many People Are Unemployed 244 Theory of Change 248 Philosophical Puzzles Resolved 252 Brought to You by the Letter “S” 255 When Brute Force Fails 257 The Real Problem with Waiting for ‘Superman’ 261 Goods, Services, and Delegations 263 VI • RAW THOUGHT • RAW NERVE AARON SWARTZ Professional Politicians Beware! 267 America After Meritocracy: Chris Hayes’ The Twilight of The Elites 272 Thinking Clearly About Piece-Work 276 Is Awkwardness Avoidable? 279 What Happens in Batman Begins 281 What Happens in The Dark Knight 283 SCIENCE & STUFF 290 Fraud in Science 291 David M. Clark on Cognitive Therapy 294 The Disappearance of Thought 297 Do Faces Cause Depression? Self-Experimentation in Science 299 Science Summaries 302 That Isn’t Science! 304 The Hard Sciences 307 The Sexual Life of Savages 308 Sociology or Anthropology 311 How Quantum Mechanics is Compatible with Free Will 313 A Very Speculative Theory of Free Will 316 Discrimination and Causation 318 Area Scientist’s Study Confirms Own Prejudices 320 Science or Philosophy? Jon Elster and John Searle 322 The True Story of the Telephone 325 The Logic of Loss 329 The New Science of Causation 331 Should our cognitive biases have moral weight? 337 The Perils of Parfit 1: Credible Commitments 339 Individuals in a World of Science 341 Do I have too much faith in science? 345 WORK & TECH 350 Aaron joins Creative Commons as RDF Advisor 351 Copyright is Unconstitutional! 352 Copyright law exists to enlarge the public domain 355 The Case for Source Code Escrow 356 Charging Society 357 The Early Days of A Better Website 359 TABLE OF CONTENTS DISCOVERY PUBLISHER • VII Privacy, Accuracy, Security: Pick Two 361 Secrets of Standards 365 Introducing Infogami 367 Rewriting Reddit 370 A Brief History of Ajax 374 Release Late, Release Rarely 377 The Fruits of Mass Collaboration 378 The Techniques of Mass Collaboration: A Third Way Out 380 What Does Blogspace Look Like? 383 Wikimedia at the Crossroads 385 Who Writes Wikipedia? 388 Who Writes Wikipedia? — Responses 393 False Outliers 396 Who Runs Wikipedia? 398 Making More Wikipedians 402 Making More Wikipedias 405 Code, and Other Laws of Wikipedia 408 (The Dandy Warhols) Come Down 410 A Unified Theory of Magazines 413 And Now, The News 415 Office Space 417 Life at the Office 419 Products That Should Exist 421 Eight Reasons (Some) Wikis Work 422 7 Habits of Highly Successful Websites 425 The Politics of Wikipedians 429 The Politics of Wikis 430 Announcing the Open Library 431 The Joy of Public Speaking 432 HOWTO: Get a Job Like Mine (I) 433 HOWTO: Build Decent Productivity Software 441 Introducing theinfo.org 444 Welcome, watchdog.net 446 HOWTO: Promote Startups 448 Guerilla Open Access Manifesto 451 HOWTO: Launch Software 453 In Defense of Anonymity 457 OCLC on the Run 459 VIII • RAW THOUGHT • RAW NERVE AARON SWARTZ Non-Hierarchical Management 461 A Non-Local Revolution 472 Redesign 474 djb 475 How I Hire Programmers 478 The Logic of Google Ads 481 Researcher Job 486 Is Apple Evil? 487 Do It Now 489 HOWTO: Get a Job Like Mine (II) 491 Management, Organizing, Mobilizing 493 A Censorship-Resistant Web 495 Squaring the Triangle: Secure, Decentralized, Human-Readable Names 500 How Apple Works 503 What Does Google Mean by ‘Evil’? 506 Steve Jobs and the Founder’s Pain 508 Apple and the Kindle 511 Revolutions on the Internet 513 How Python 3 Should Have Worked 515 The Pokayoke Guide to Developing Software 517 EDUCATION & PARODY 532 Noam on Terrorism 533 Like Father Like Son 534 Meeting Justice Kennedy 535 Stanford: Psychology is a Fraud 541 Intellectual Diversity at Stanford 543 Founders Unite for Startup School 545 I Love the University 547 Take the Easy Way Out 549 The Awfulness of College Lectures 552 The Greatness of College Lectures 554 College: Commodity or Community? 556 iz r childrens lrnng? 558 Getting it Wrong 565 Getting It Right 568 Drop Out 569 TABLE OF CONTENTS DISCOVERY PUBLISHER • IX Never Back to School 571 Our Underachieving College Presidents 573 Disciplinary Bubbles 575 A Reading Machine 577 LIFE & PARODY 580 Ethics By Analogy 581 to the courthouse 582 today is my birthday 583 book connections: death and life, future of ideas, elements of typography 584 what should I do with my life? 586 Notes to Self 587 Change of Course 588 The Book That Changed My Life 590 HOWTO: be more productive 593 The Intentionality of Evil 604 Serious Social Science 605 Eat and Code 607 The Miracle Diet 610 A Future Without Fat 613 Fat Backlash 616 On Losing Weight 619 Nutrition Basics 622 Simple Tips for Longer Living 625 Say Goodbye to Embarrassment 626 Tips for Better Thinking 628 Think Bigger: A Generalist Manifesto 630 What It Means To Be An Intellectual 632 A Non-Programmer’s Apology 635 A Clarification 640 Life in Suburbia: Land of Cliche 641 Legacy 645 What Makes a Personality Scary? 648 The Smalltalk Question 650 Of the MBTA 652 Alone in the Hospital 655 A Feminist Goes to the Hospital 659 X • RAW THOUGHT • RAW NERVE AARON SWARTZ Life in the Hospital 662 Everybody Tells Me So 664 Meeting Peter Singer 665 Causes of Conformance 668 Business ‘Ethics’ 671 The Genius is in the Details 674 Two Conceptions of Taste 676 A Moment Before Dying 678 The Sociologist’s Creed 682 The Activist’s Creed 682 The Intellectual’s Creed 683 Getting Past 684 Neurosis #9 686 Everything Good is Bad For You 690 Aaron’s Patented Demotivational Seminar 692 The Secret Behind The Secret 694 Sick 697 Starting Out in the Morning 699 The Theory of The Game

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