Power Lies Trembling: a three-book review — LessWrong
In a previous book review I described exclusive nightclubs as the particle colliders of sociology—places where you can reliably observe extreme force…
x Power Lies Trembling: a three-book review — LessWrong World Modeling Curated 2025 Top Fifty: 23 % 218 Power Lies Trembling: a three-book review by Richard_Ngo 22nd Feb 2025 Linkpost for www.mindthefuture.info 18 min read 29 218 In a previous book review I described exclusive nightclubs as the particle colliders of sociology—places where you can reliably observe extreme forces collide. If so, military coups are the supernovae of sociology. They’re huge, rare, sudden events that, if studied carefully, provide deep insight about what lies underneath the veneer of normality around us. That’s the
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