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Can disagreement be made productive at scale?
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Raised by Noémie Simard30 Mar 20263 sources
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NSNoémie SimardOpened 11 Jun 2026
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Book
Development as Freedom
Amartya Sen · 1999
Argues that development should be measured as the expansion of real freedoms people enjoy, not as income growth alone.
Book
The Human Condition
Hannah Arendt · 1958
Distinguishes labour, work and action, and defends the public realm as the space where human plurality becomes visible.
Podcast / Lecture
Arendt on Plurality — recorded lecture
Noémie Simard · 2025
Fifty minutes on why disagreement is not a failure of the public realm but its precondition.
Book
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith · 1776
The founding argument that specialisation and exchange, not hoarded bullion, are the sources of a nation's wealth — read here against its own moral philosophy.
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas S. Kuhn · 1962
The account of paradigms and anomalies that reframed science as a social practice punctuated by crisis, not a smooth accumulation of facts.
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Discipline and Punish
Michel Foucault · 1975
The birth of the prison as a model for modern institutions: power exercised through visibility, measurement and the ordinary timetable.
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The Beginning of Infinity
David Deutsch · 2011
A defence of good explanations as the engine of unlimited progress, and of optimism as an epistemological position rather than a mood.
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The Bitter Lesson
Richard S. Sutton · 2019
Seven hundred words arguing that general methods which scale with computation beat hand-built human knowledge — the most quoted essay in the AI circle.
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This Is Water — Kenyon commencement address
David Foster Wallace · 2005
Twenty minutes on attention as a moral discipline: what you choose to notice is what your adult life is made of.