Goliath's CurseLuke Kemp
Goliath's Curse
by Luke Kemp · first published 2025
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On that second point - I can strongly recommend the book Goliath's Curse by Luke Kemp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath%27s_Curse
on “Audio tapes reveal mass rule-breaking in Milgram's obedience experiments” ↗Goliath's Curse by Luke Kemp covers it pretty well I think.
on “OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine” ↗…societies. It's great that we can now put a name to the issue and there is more and more awareness of it. It's also refreshing to see human history being examined through that lens, like in Luke Kemp's "Goliath's Curse": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath's_Curse
on “We've made the world too complicated” ↗The book is Goliath's Curse by Luke Kemp. I am hopeful for this one, most generalizations about collapse are not very good, they rely on avoiding the details of history and instead make sweeping generalizations. Collapse is one…
on “Humanity's Endgame” ↗