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List of phenomena every human should know about, because problems cannot be solved by the level of awareness that created them.

Science

• Scientific Method
• Gödel's incompleteness theorems
• Nonlinear Systems

Evolution

• Evolution
• Evolution of the Universe
• Evolution of Life
• Evolution of Humans
• Evolution of Civilsation
• Evolution of Technology
• Evolution of Artificial Life

Psychology and Sociology

• Hierarchy of Needs
• Signalling Theory
• Cognitive Dissonance
• Fundamental Attribution Error
• Propaganda
• Diffusion of responsibility
• Lateral Thinking

Common Logical Fallacies

• List of Fallacies
• Argument from Authority
• Straw Man
• Slippery Slope
• Dunning Kruger Effect
• Splitting
• Goodhart's law

Rational Civilisations

• Classical Greece
• Renaissance
• Age of Enlightenment
• Peace Movement
• Complexity

Irrational Civilisations

• Dark Ages
• Golden Calf
• Letter of Indulgence
• Cargo Cult
• Cargo Cult Science
• Decadence
• Failed Empires

Modern Wars

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." Albert Einstein (1949)

• World War 1
• World War 2
• Cold War
• War on Terror
• World War 3
• Arms Race

Mass Surveillance

• Ministry for State Security
• Global Mass Surveillance Disclosures

Financial Systems

• Gold Standard
• Fiat Money
• Hyperinflation
• Bretton Woods System
• Federal Reserve System
• Cypherpunk
• Bitcoin
• Social Scalability

Artificial Intelligence

• Alpha Zero vs. Alpha Go
• AI beats humans in Poker (2017)
• Open Letter on Autonomous Weapons
• AI Open Letter
• Future of Work
• Book: Life 3.0
• Documentary: "Do you trust this computer?"

Psychological Warfare

• Edward Bernays
• Gustave Le Bon
• Operation Mockingbird
• Milgram Experiment
• Stanford Prison Experiment
• Asch conformity experiments
• Biderman's Chart of Coercion
• MK-Ultra