Looking Under the Hood of AI’s Dubious Models
Models are only valuable in the long run if we are free to take them apart.
In the Sideshadows
Posted on August 3, 2021
Image: Slunce v lese by Antonín Slavíček. Gallery of Modern Art in Roudnice nad Labem. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Everyone contributes to the pandemic, so all bear responsibility.
Finding Fukuyama’s Ends
Western liberal democracy is something worth aspiring to—an optimal destiny, not an imminent fate.
Changing Times
Once upon a time there was a publication that was doing all it could to tell a straight story and to listen to all sides.
Who Killed Essentialism?
Posted on July 16, 2021
Image: Study B by Pedro Ribeiro Simões. Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Modern Collection, Lisbon, Portugal. Via Wikimedia Commons.
We seem to be unable to do without our essences.
The Idiosyncratic School of Reading
Self-knowledge and pleasure, the Idiosyncratics teach us, go hand in hand through the library.