Informational Man
We are creating algorithms to solve our problems that often inadvertently end up creating misalignments between our intentions and their end results.
Do We Absolutely Disagree?
by
Alan Jacobs
Posted on March 9, 2021
Image: Foreground: “The Happy Marriage,” seventeenth century allegorical engraving; background: late nineteenth century printing of “Areopagitica,” art by Lucien Pissaro.
Well known free speech advocates may not always be free speech absolutists.
Goodbye to All This
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In memory of a happy half a decade.
Opinion Fetishism
Posted on March 30, 2021
Image: Opinions by the score in the Ancient Greek agora.
Without the distance between self and thought, self and utterance, we are unable to entertain, probe, or debate ideas.