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Beeluxeerallc: GUERRILLA THINKING

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A wide-ranging analysis of how the material limits to discrete, silicon-based computing power impact employment and automation. Since the end of the Second World War, we have come to expect continual growth in computing power and the rapid development of digital technology. This dynamic has enabled informational procedures to supplant an ever-increasing range of human and mechanical activity. However, indications that the semiconductor industry is approaching the physical limits of integrated circuitry pose an existential challenge to Intel Corporation cofounder Gordon Moore’s “law,” which prescribes an exponential increase in microchip density—and, by extension, processing performance—every two years. Placing theories of employment in dialectical conjunction with the concrete operations of computing, 100% Utilization explores the consequences of pushing processing power to its limits for a culture seemingly reliant on automation as much as human labor. In accounting for this contradiction, Andrew Lison offers a corrective to theories of digital mediation emphasizing its symbolic and representational capabilities. He connects the looming end of Moore’s law to trends in semiconductor manufacturing, custom hardware, and parallelized software techniques, including AI. Ultimately, he traces this historical technological boom and impending bust through the racialized history of Silicon Valley to longer-term conceptions of the relationship between machinery and labor.

Computation and Labor After Moore's Law

100% Utilization

A rich, thorough exploration of infinity that combines mathematical precision with playful, accessible coverage of a fascinating variety of paradoxes and conundrums. In this rich, thorough account of all things infinite, Joel David Hamkins combines playful thought experiments with mathematically precise exposition to explore the vast, fascinating spectrum of paradoxes and conundrums of infinity. Written with equal parts wonder and rigor, the book moves from classical paradoxes (Zeno, Hilbert’s hotel, Aristotle’s wheel) to Cantor’s transfinite arithmetic, the continuum hypothesis, surreal numbers, infinitesimals, epistemic logic puzzles, and contemporary debates about potential vs. actual infinity. Twenty-five lively, self-contained chapters are enriched by extensive illustrations, diagrams, figures, and Fermi-style estimation puzzles. Highly readable and pedagogically rich, The Book of Infinity is ideal for undergraduate philosophy and math students and enthusiasts of logical and mathematical curiosities alike. <ul><li>Approaches a wide range of ideas with both rigor and delight</li><li>Renders deep mathematical ideas accessible to beginners</li><li>Emphasizes intuition and deep conceptual understanding</li><li>Integrates historical perspectives and contemporary issues</li><li>Suits anyone interested in paradoxes, large numbers, and conceptual puzzles</li></ul>

The Book of Infinity

A timely guide to help you re-examine your ideas, encounter debate, and navigate a polarized world with calm rationality."Nerenberg offers ways to speak up, stand alone, and be true to ourselves. . . . Nerenberg’s timely and thought-provoking analysis is sure to spark discussion." – BooklistTrust Your Mind takes you on a stunning tour of self-silencing, groupthink, and their antidote: critical reasoning. From conducting in-depth interviews to uncovering scientific research and sharing her own personal story, bestselling author Jenara Nerenberg offers searing insights on how to identify and exit everyday extremism and transform fear and hesitation into courageous dialogue that embraces dissent.If you’ve ever felt suddenly silenced or taken over by your own self-censorship, Trust Your Mind has been praised as “compelling, lucid and timely” by social psychologist Ethan Kross and hailed as “a bold call to think deeper and speak truer” by social psychologist Kurt Gray for how the book reinvigorates an ethic of pluralism at a time when respect for differing viewpoints is narrowing: <ul><li>Contradictory ideas spark hysteria and backlash—resulting in mobbing and “cancel culture”</li><li>A “wrong” remark or comment, no matter how seemingly innocent, gets twisted and results in banishment</li><li>Polarization and pressure to conform to “the group”—friends, families, workplaces, and communities—fuels alienation and threatens the fabric of a connected society</li></ul>Trust Your Mind guides you along the difficult path toward critical thinking and illuminates: <ul><li>The origins of self-silencing culture and how to counter the devastating loss of independent thought</li><li>The inner workings of critical reasoning and how to “come down to earth” away from everyday extremist thinking</li><li>How to forge existential survival skills and what Nerenberg calls “an emotional backbone"</li></ul> Communication has become increasingly divisive; Nerenberg calmly shows readers how to walk through discomfort, stay grounded in one’s own viewpoint while encountering opposition, and stay connected. To examine and communicate one’s own ideas—like a deep-sea diver, investigator or anthropologist—is a vital, strategic skill and exploration for individuals in the 21st century.

Embracing Nuance in a World of Self-Silencing

Trust Your Mind

Goldsmiths Press / Methods Lab

Scholars around the world on how climate change stands to alter our research methods. Current research norms are increasingly unsustainable for the planet and scholars alike. Dominant modes of research and research dissemination place a premium on frequent travel and ever-expanding and energy-intensive archives of digital data. This shapes the character of research and the research community, advantaging hyper-mobile, well-resourced scholarly subjects above others, deepening both the climate and labor crises in academia. Low Carbon Research Methods explores the epistemological and equity impacts of high-carbon research as well as the potential gains made possible through a transition towards slower, less mobile, and more collaborative forms of inquiry and exchange. Through short, multi-authored chapters the book examines the prospects and challenges of decarbonizing different academic methods, including archival, ethnographic, arts-based, textual, and digital modes of inquiry. Its authors provide self-reflexive analyses, practical advice, and provocations to researchers new to critical methodology, as well as those returning to their methods with new questions prompted by growing climate justice imperatives, the disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic, and long-standing critiques from feminist, Global South, and disability studies scholars. In its emphasis on method, the book offers a generative meeting point for these varied concerns and coalitions. Methods usefully tie questions of individual behaviour choices to institutional policies and social practices—specifically around labor—and as such can provide useful avenues of collective action. Finally, the book also builds its project through distinct experiments in form. Its authors explore a range of styles, some specific to their disciplinary traditions, and some drawn from diverse genres including the manifesto, epistolary correspondence, group dialog, memoir, and speculative fiction. These variations in style underscore the argumentative aims of the book as a whole: to open, but not conclusively decide, discussions on this topic within different communities of practice.

Making Equity and Epistemological Gains Through Decarbonising Academic Work

Low Carbon Research Methods

The machine can search faster than you. Write cleaner than you. It calculates, summarizes, and optimizes better than you and it is getting better at all of these, every month. Every day.

What it cannot do is wonder. The only thing that still costs something, that compounds, that builds, and that makes you genuinely difficult to replace, is the quality of your questions.

CURIOUS is a book about that edge. Drawing on neuroscience, philosophy, and two decades at the intersection of business, technology, and human behaviour, it makes the case that curiosity is not a personality trait. It is a skill. One that can be built, directed, and deployed, in a boardroom, in a career, in life.

The people who thrive in the age of AI will not be the most knowledgeable. 
They will be the most curious.

Are you?

The Only Skill the Age of AI Cannot Replace

CURIOUS

Igor and the Mending Mice is a funny and heartwarming picture book that celebrates creativity and shows children the joy of repairing and recycling, as a family of clever mice take on fast fashion and outsmart a bullying factory boss.&nbsp; In a town where fashion is everything and people only wear brand-new clothes, a family of industrious mice discover a different way forward. With nimble paws and clever ideas, they begin mending old and damaged clothes, stitching new life into once-forgotten favourites. Soon, their human neighbours are delighted to have wardrobes that are both beautiful and long-lasting.&nbsp; But not everyone is happy. Igor, the mean and miserly owner of the town’s fast-fashion factory, is furious as his business begins to lose money. Determined to put a stop to the meddling mice, he tries to outwit them. Can Igor squash their creativity, or will the mice’s resourceful nature inspire a change of heart (and business)?&nbsp; Through humour and heart, this story shows that small acts of creativity can make a big difference, while gently encouraging children to think about waste and sustainability.&nbsp; Igor and the Mending Mice is a joyful book that introduces children to the idea of 're-loving' their old clothes and inspires them to see the value in what they already have. Printed locally on recycled paper, it will delight young readers and reassure adults they are making a positive choice for the planet.&nbsp;

Igor and the Mending Mice

Great thinking leads to great success. But how do you train your mind to think in ways that boost productivity, solve problems, and strengthen relationships?In Thinking for Success, John Knowlton shares 52 captivating stories that challenge limiting beliefs, spark fresh perspective, and help you make better decisions in every area of life. Drawing from history, literature, and real-world experiences—including his own—John presents a practical and engaging approach to thinking differently.Learn what Kurt Vonnegut had to say about love and courtesy. Discover how Midshipman Jonathan Monkhouse saved Captain Cook and the crew of HMS Endeavor. Find wisdom about self-talk from an elderly woman named Yvonne.Whether you’re a recent graduate seeking direction, a manager aligning your team, or a business leader looking to communicate with clarity—Thinking for Success delivers real tools for upgrading your thinking, one story at a time.Perfect for personal development, leadership training, or weekly team discussions, this inspiring collection offers insight, challenge, and transformation in short, actionable chapters.

52 Stories That Upgrade Your Thinking to Boost Productivity, Problem-Solving, and Relationships

Thinking for Success

Epistemic autonomy worth valuing requires epistemic dependence on others, as well as on tools and technology. In How We Govern Our Minds Through Others, J. Adam Carter and Neil Levy argue that epistemic autonomy worth valuing requires various kinds of epistemic dependence on others, as well as on tools and technology. Challenging the Cartesian ideal of self-sufficient knowledge acquisition, they show that epistemic dependence is both inevitable and beneficial. Self‑governance is mediated by social relationships and institutions; we manage our beliefs and attention through collaborations, trust, and the influence of others. What emerges is a reconceptualization of epistemic autonomy as deeply social and deeply scaffolded. Integrating insights from philosophy, cognitive science, AI ethics, and media studies, the authors offer a positive, socially scaffolded conception of epistemic self‑governance. The topics they explore include epistemic autonomy in connection with hijacked attention, intellectual collaboration with others in group settings, artificial intelligence, first-hand insight, nudging and questioning, epistemic feedback loops, and adaptive control. Their arguments have ramifications for educators and designers of digital platforms, as well as those working in the emerging landscape of AI law, digital rights, and mental privacy.

Epistemic Autonomy Beyond the Myth of Independence

How We Govern Our Minds Through Others

From a leading Harvard AI safety expert, an explosive vision, drawn from emerging new research, of the terrifyingly short road to cognitive diminishment, as humans have begun to be caught in the flywheel of domestication. This is not a book about AI.&nbsp; This is a book about the human mind in the grip of AI. Heated conversations about the impact of artificial intelligence tend to focus on one question: what AI will do to us, as if the “us” part of the equation is a constant. James Ryan argues with frightening clarity that this is missing the point.. The most important question, the one that will determine the future of our children, our civilization, and our species, is whether we will recognize AI’s &nbsp;power to change our essential human nature before we’ve passed the point of no return. Ryan begins with a brilliant deep history of the co-evolution of human cognition and technology, from writing to printing through to the television, the Internet, GPS and social media, landing on AI from a running start of some four thousand years of human history.&nbsp; With every new technology, people worried that our minds would shrink because of these new tools -- and in fact we did lose some capacity. The brain was actually larger when humans could memorize long epic poems. GPS capacity causes our hippocampus to shrink.&nbsp; But we always took the deal. And it was worth it. As a result, we have been set up for a fall. All those technologies were tools in the way that AI is not merely a tool.&nbsp; AI offloads cognition at a more fundamental level, narrowing and homogenizing our options, surrendering our agency to a machine primed by actors whose interests aren’t aligned with ours, robbing us of the whetstone of cognitive friction that sharpens our minds into their full human form. And at the moment we are almost entirely undefended. Much can be done, but the urgency is acute.&nbsp; Ten thousand years ago, wildcats wandered into the grain stores of Neolithic settlements, drawn by easy prey.&nbsp; Those who could make their peace in this new world by growing tamer and more docile got an easier, less intense life. They also cut their mental capacity in half. No one forced the cats to stay. They stayed because the grain store offered easy calories without the work of stalking and hunting wild prey. The world is becoming one giant grain store, and humans are now faced with one of the greatest collective challenges in our history.

AI and the Terms of Our Surrender

The Domestication

A theory of the formal structure of commonsense concepts. In Conceptual Form, Sandeep Prasada develops a new and original approach to the study of commonsense concepts. He argues that lexically expressible concepts such as DOG possess a formal structure—a conceptual form—which provides perspectives for thinking, talking, and reasoning. These perspectives are not a property of the things the concept represents. Rather, they are “mental lenses,” or ways of thinking and talking. The conceptual form functions as a mental lens by providing instructions for how to think and talk about what the concept represents. The book is unique in its focus on the formal dimension of commonsense concepts, its original proposal for how the type-token distinction is realized within our conceptual systems, its proposal that the core of concepts involves the acquisition of principles, not facts and generalizations, and its detailed consideration of linguistic and experimental data in the formulation of the theory of conceptual form. Finally, this book provides a new perspective on classic questions concerning the atomicity and innateness of concepts. Even those who disagree with specific claims are likely to find the theoretical tools and distinctions introduced by the theory of conceptual form to be valuable in their investigation of concepts.

The Hidden Structure of Commonsense Concepts

Conceptual Form

Applying Architectural Thinking to Everyday Choices

The Decision Blueprint

How AI can positively impact so many aspects of our daily lives, from health and wellness to work, education, and home life. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful general-purpose technology that is reshaping the modern economy, but misperceptions about AI stand in the way of harnessing it for the betterment of humanity. In Thrive, Ravi Bapna and Anindya Ghose counter the backlash by showcasing how AI is positively influencing the aspects of our daily lives that we care about most: our health and wellness, relationships, education, the workplace, and domestic life. In the process the authors help explain the underlying technology and give people the agency they need to shape the debate around how we should regulate AI to maximize its benefits and minimize its risks.

Maximizing Well-Being in the Age of AI

Thrive

GUERRILLA THINKING

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