On 11/6/98, Anders Sandberg wrote:
>Just a quick list of interesting papers that caught my eye this week
>(some of this earlier reported on or from the transhumantech list):
>
>* Beta-amyloid precursors as memory enhancers
>* Geocybernetics: controlling the world
>* Tisse-engineering of large tissues
>* Growing neurons on patterned substrates
>* Quantum key distribution through air
>* NP=P if QM is nonlinear
>* The street performer protocol for funding public works
>* Networked schools
>* Controlling complexity
Anders, I'm glad you're reading widely, but I have to comment on
your poor taste in economics sources. The physics articles and
journals you cite are top-notch, and I'll presume the biology
articles are as well (I don't know that field very well). But
I looked at "The street performer ..." and "Networked schools",
and they are really lousy economics - you probably couldn't get
them published in a poor economics journal.
I'll give the authors credit for trying to tackle neglected
problems, and they may even have the germs of some interesting
thoughts on them. But compared to the physics articles you cite,
well there really is no comparison.
Robin Hanson
hanson@econ.berkeley.edu http://hanson.berkeley.edu/ RWJF Health Policy Scholar FAX: 510-643-8614 140 Warren Hall, UC Berkeley, CA 94720-7360 510-643-1884