Gwern — Docs: Science↗

Around 1200 B.C. (the story goes) the Greek forces were gathering in preparation for their assault on the city of Troy.

In the four chapters of this concluding section, themes of the previous section are carried further and brought into contact with common social dilemmas and, eventually, the current world situation.

It is seldom, if ever, that human beings are not actively searching for something.

[pg3] Evaluations of social programs have a long history, as history goes in the social sciences, but it has been only in the last two decades that evaluation has come close to becoming a routine...

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace, to give us the means of rendering...

Climb Mount Improbable Richard Dawkins created a series of computer programs in the 1980s designed to show how evolution works. This interactive site is based on his original code.

In order to make the information in the talk more widely available, the tape recording that was made of that talk was carefully transcribed [in 1986 ?] .