Baseball: Practices for Coming Home

by Jeffrey Bilbro

The American pastime offers a balm for our restless, competitive, and often militaristic culture. Continue Reading »

30 Aug 2016

Singin’ the Android Blues

by Will Wilson

“Any two AI designs might be less similar to one another than you are to a petunia.” - Eliezer Yudkowsky, Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk . John Schwenkler was kind enough to point me towards this post by Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution in . . . . Continue Reading »

24 Jul 2009

Political vs. Cultural vs. Ethical Localism

by Will Wilson

James is fond of destinguishing between ‘political libertarians’ and ‘cultural libertarians’, and the more that I read the ongoing kerfuffle over localism that has spread from PoMoCon and FPR to First Thoughts and Daniel McCarthy , the more I think a similar distinction . . . . Continue Reading »

2 Jul 2009