Mal- Dis- Mis- I'll Take It All
I'll play with the bots and kneel before my algolords. In the big picture, they provide the clearest picture.
Topic
Knowledge
"One should say 'it thinks,' just as one says: 'it's lightning.'" Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Why I Subscribed to Encylopedia Britannica
I subscribed to the Encyclopedia Britannica.
It was difficult. I didn't much mind the $75 annual subscription price, but I've spent early 2024 weeding subscriptions out of my wallet—about $1,000 worth annually. Last week, I discovered I could watch March Madness this year for
The Inherent and Severe Limitations of Thinking
In the early 1990s, I practiced law with a lot of impressive Jewish attorneys. One, particularly so. He was brilliant, aggressive, and driven. He also held a Ph.D. in philosophy. I always wanted to ask him why he got a doctorate in philosophy and then went to law school,
Thinking isn't Rational: It's Embodied Reasoning
David Weinberger at University Bookman
Handwriting: Brain Connectivity?
George Citroner at Epoch Times
What the Ape Man Can Teach Us About a Common Mental Mistake
Pithecanthropus is the ape-man. He's also known as the Java Man and the Peking Man. Latin-loving scientists call him Homo erectus, Homo modjokertenses, Meganthropus palaeojavanicus, Pithecanthropus robustus, and Pithecanthropus dubius.
He is the creation of Dutch physician Eugene Dubois. In the 1890s, Dubois discovered a few bony remains
The Shallow World of Artificial Intelligence
Adam Kirsch at LiteratureGBT
This is Your Brain on News
Interview of Bryan Caplan at the 80,000 Hours Podcast. Transcript.
Leftists Trying Not to be Gnostics
Current Affairs seems like a worthwhile magazine. It describes itself as "the left magazine for people skeptical of leftism." Based on this essay, it seems pretty far left . . . Bernie Sanders-left . . . but intellectually honest left.
In the perspective of the Hemisphere Hypothesis, an "intellectually honest" leftist is
AI and the Left Hemisphere
About once a month, I come across an online essay that is so lengthy and compelling that, after reading the first section, I merely scan the rest and print it out so I can study it later.
Such is this essay by Adam Kirsch. It appears to be an explanation