#Колонки для Комп'ютерри
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Frog poison, an unsuccessful experience of going into business, and doubt about the innovative prospects of university science. Column for Kompyutera #101
Under those circumstances, we had to do not what we were good at, but what real customers were willing to pay for.
The hundredth column: an attempt to catch one's breath, look around, and understand what and why I am doing. Column for Computerra #100
I write columns for ComputerraOnline, which has now turned again simply into Computerra, already two years without a little piece. Starting this activity, I found for myself (and indicated for readers) the topics on which I have something to say. …
First, second and third replicators according to Susan Blackmore, the origin of life and the general scheme of phase transitions in evolution. Column for Kompyuterra #99
How does the transition to the next level of replicators occur — let us call it a phase transition in evolution? The aggregate of interacting (=competing and cooperating) replicators creates an environment in which interacting replicators of a different type …
Gessner's Mistake, or A Defence Against the Sea-Devil: How the Mechanism of Science Functions. Column for Kompyuterra #98
Science is not monolithic. The medical community is not monolithic. The people who work with vaccines do not constitute a unitary, tightly managed organisation. Beyond the interests of their community, each of them also has personal interests (often in some …
How We Are Fooled: An Analysis of a Portion of Anti-Vaccination Arguments from a "Primary Source". Column for Computerra #97
A human is arranged so that loads on their physiological systems, if not of an extreme nature, are beneficial and promote development. How do you develop muscle tissue? By training. How do you develop the capacity for critical thinking? By …
On (In)effective Management, Conflicts of Interest at Different Levels of the Hierarchy, and the Invisible Foot. Column in КомпьютерреOnline #96
We live in a complex and poorly governed world. How can we improve the quality of decisions made? It seems to me that the most effective path is restructuring the management system in such a way that at each level …
Dispute between the informed and the misinformed: how to find the optimal solution? Column for Computerra #95
On some controversial issue, citizens are divided into three groups: uninformed, misinformed, and informed. The uninformed don't know what to do, the misinformed almost always "know" for certain, and the informed have doubts (if the issue under discussion is really …
Work for an Activist. Column in KomputerraOnline #94
When deciding on the application of a given technology, the potential harm must be compared not against a hypothetical situation of total well-being, but against the problems that would arise from implementing its alternatives.
Median, Puzzling Doses. Column in KomputerraOnline #93
High doses of damaging factors cause harm – that much is clear. Low doses very often produce a stimulating effect. But the most difficult thing to understand is how intermediate doses act. Much remains unclear on this point.
Зыбкая почва. Column in КомпьютерреOnline #92
Only self-irony and the understanding that your new impressions are not a hidden truth, but rather another view, another version of reality, can protect against the "roof collapse" with particularly severe consequences.
Dialogue with reality. Column in ComputerraOnline #91
Serious changes will inevitably occur in our lives; perhaps we are facing serious threats. Which worldview will prove to be the most adaptive in such a situation?
Dies irae
How "to work" with end-of-the-world expectations according to astrological versions, I do not know, but the threat of an ecological catastrophe should serve as an impetus to reconsider our way of life.
Reality vs. actuality. Column in ComputerraOnline #89
Discussions of "objective reality" are most often linked to a simple sophism: let us imagine that which exists outside our conceptions and outside any connection with them...
Ontological adaptationism. Column in ComputerreOnline #88
Do not seek a way to shift responsibility from yourself onto “objective reality,” God, or the mysterious properties of the universe.
Forward, Toward the Epigenetic Future! Column in KomputerraOnline #87
The distinctive feature of the epigenetic theory of evolution is its attention to the organism and its development as an integral system viewed phenomenologically rather than analytically.
The internal is more important than the external. Column in ComputerreOnline #86
A successful organismal construction turns out to be a trap from which it is practically impossible to escape without reorganizing the nature of selection. A biospheric crisis can release it.
Mountain road. Column in ComputerreOnline #85
None of us will predetermine which scenario of humanity's development will be realized. But the actions of each of us can increase the probability of a technological transition or feralization.
Evolution: biological and social. Column in ComputerreOnline #84
When making strategic decisions, we do not take long‑term forecasts into account simply because, due to the organization of our society, we give priority to the short‑term interests of individual groups.
The Pendulum. Column in KompyuterraOnline #83
An effectively managed process generates rapid, small oscillations in the variables by which we assess its state.
The Invisible Foot and the National Question. Column in KomputerraOnline #82
When interacting with a system, you wish to change it. You attempt to influence something... and receive a trip: your actions produce the opposite effect.