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The world’s most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the #1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer
For any task you might want to do, there’s a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It’s full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole.
Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to tell if you’re a baby boomer or a 90’s kid by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and getting to your appointments on time by destroying the Moon. And if you want to get rid of the book once you’re done with it, he walks you through your options for proper disposal, including dissolving it in the ocean, converting it to a vapor, using tectonic plates to subduct it into the Earth’s mantle, or launching it into the Sun.
By exploring the most complicated ways to do simple tasks, Munroe doesn’t just make things difficult for himself and his readers. As he did so brilliantly in What If?, Munroe invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible. Full of clever infographics and amusing illustrations, How To is a delightfully mind-bending way to better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every day.
作者简介:
Randall Munroe is the author of the popular webcomic xkcd and the science question-and-answer blog What If. Randall was born in Easton, Pennsylvania and grew up outside Richmond, Virginia. After studying physics at Christopher Newport University, he got a job building robots at NASA Langley Research Center. In 2006, he left NASA to draw comics on the internet full-time, supporting himself through the sale of xkcd t-shirts, prints, posters, and books. He likes candlelight dinners and long walks on the beach. Very long walks. Lots of people say they like long walks on the beach, but then they get out on the beach and after just an hour or two, they say they’re getting tired. Bring a tent. He lives in Massachusetts.
原文摘录:
如何交到朋友？
坏消息是：没有任何神奇的公式或者诀窍能把别人变成你的朋友。如果有的话，那就意味着你可以把这一招用在任何人身上，不管这人是谁，不管他心里怎么想。而如果你不在乎这个人是谁，也不在乎他的感受，那你就不是人家的朋友。
伊曼努尔・康德提出了一条叫作“定言令式”的原则，这是他的伦理学核心观点。他用好几种不同的形式表述了这条原则，其中第二种表述形式节选如下：“以你对待他人的方式行事……绝对不能仅仅当成手段，而要永远将其看作目的。”
在特里·普拉切特的小说《扼住咽喉》（ Carpe Jugulum）里，有个人物叫威泽韦克斯奶奶，她曾用更简洁的方式表述过这一原则。有个年轻人想告诉奶奶，罪恶的本质非常复杂。她说，不，其实很简单。“罪恶，就是把人当成东西来对待。
不管你是否信服定言令式的哲学，它都是很实用的建议，因为如果有人被当成东西对待，人家是能感觉出来的。人类虽说有很多缺点，但在揣测别人意图这方面，确实有成千上万年的经验，这个技能可比我们用语言表达感受的本领更古老、更深刻。我们也许很短视、很糊涂，还老是犯错，但我们隔老远就能闻到轻蔑和傲慢的气息。
所以，虽说认识别人可能不难，但没有一套简单的流程，让你按部就班地和他们交上朋友，因为友谊意味着在乎别人的感受。光靠你自己，没有办法判断别人是怎么想的，再多的研究和思考也浸有用。你必须去问他们，并且听听他们都 (查看原文)
眉谷
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2020-05-31 18:59:38
—— 引自章节：18 如何交到朋友
我决定咨询专家。我联系了凯特・达琳博士，她是MIT（麻省理工学院）媒体实验室的机器人伦理学家。我问她，为了好玩而拿网球砸无人机是不是错的。
她说：“无人机不会在乎，但别人可能在乎。”她指出，虽然我们的机器人没有感情，但人类是有的。“虽然我们知道机器人只是机器，但我们还是倾向于把它们当成生命来对待。随着机器人的设计越来越逼真，你在对它们使用暴力之前恐怕也要三思，这可能让人们感到不舒服。”
这讲得通。但另个问题，我们对机器人动感情真的好吗？
如果你想惩罚机器人，”她说，“那你就找错对象了。”
有道理。我们需要担心的不是机器人，而是操控机器人的人类。
如果你想击落一架无人机，也许应该考虑换个目标。 (查看原文)
闻夕felicity
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2020-05-27 18:13:32
—— 引自章节：22 如何捕捉无人机