Sane people adapt themselves to the world. The insane ones persist in trying to adapt the world to themselves. Therefore all progress depends on the mentally abnormal.

(Parody of a famous quote about "unreasonable man".)

and people misuse this quote to justify unreasonable behaviour that does not progress the world.

A new twist on the torment nexus, oh sweet suffering.

I like the way you think, a true MacGyver-style problem solving.

The actual link: https://cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/statement.pdf

One might argue that mathematics is more fundamental to reality than space and time, which emerge from it.

Every single aspect of that cover is manipulative marketing.

Right, but OP's implication is that they're trying to placate the masses (that somehow read the economist?), even though a few months before they were putting out alarmist covers. You can't have it both ways. If you're arguing that economist being pro-job loss is part of a globalist conspiracy and so is the economist being anti-job loss, then you just created an unfalsifiable statement, a "heads I win, tails you lose" argument.

This post is by the same author as the Lost Art of Logarithms. https://www.lostartoflogarithms.com/

Discussed about a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43356314 (196 comments)

Also the author of the famous "Programming Windows" books.

And the marvelous book Code. He explains how a digital computer works. Not sophisticated ones, not how it works on silicon, but how you turn relays into computation.

True, this book is a classic and worth mentioning.

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software - Charles Petzold

Some reviews: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44882.Code

When I discovered it, "the Petzold" was called "the Windows bible".

The similarity goes deeper since they're funded by the very thing they claim to oppose.

And the marketing to make people believe it!

It was a Show HN, with more info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137841