The Voice For John Stuart Mill
The biggest winner from the referendum on the weekend is John Stuart Mill. There’s a strand of left-wing orthodoxy these days that deprecates free speech...
The unbearable lightness of grey academia: note to self
Wikipedia defines 'grey literature' thus: Materials and research produced by organizations outside of the traditional commercial or academic publishing and distribution channels. Common grey literature publication types include...
I have seen the off-ramp and it works
From my Substack newsletter. Extraordinary images are being detected within the early pictures taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. As you know, the JWST went in...
The off-ramp from reality
This post began as an ad for an artist with traditional and AI graphic design skills. If you want to apply, please be my guest....
Fighting political polarisation
From this week's Substack of mine. Thomas B. Edsall has an important writeup of research into reducing political polarisation. But to me it seems to...
The Fertility Rate: the Best Dam(n) Wellbeing Index Going Around?
Valiant attempts have been made to measure happiness and wellbeing. People much smarter than me have developed fancy indices, and people even smarter than that,...
What kind of Character is Sam Bankman-Fried
A friend sent me this article documenting Sam Bankman-Fried's now well known text exchange with Vox journalist Kelsey Piper. I couldn't help but think of...