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Bookmark or Share- Crooked Timber — Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight ...Donald Trump has made very public threats to persecute his political opponents should he be re-elected and statements by him and by other leading Republicans suggests that he might persecute others on the grounds of their religion or their membership of certain social groups.
- The Whirlpool of the Artificial — Crooked TimberThe most recent jump, the impetus for widespread discussion of AI, came not from LLMs themselves but from the introduction of the chat interface. LLMs were made possible by huge data inputs in the artificial world of text, and by advances in the statistical technology of machine learning.
- On Joseph Heath’s account of the trajectory of analytical MarxismThere has been much attention online to a piece by Joseph Heath arguing that analytical Marxism disappeared because the analytical Marxists all turned into Rawlsian liberals. At a certain level of resolution (blurred, zoomed out) the argument has something going for it.
- Crooked Timber — Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight ...One of the most interesting developments in the little world of political theory / philosophy in recent years has been the mass resignation of the editorial teams of both Philosophy & Public Affairs, and Journal of Political Philosophy. Public statements from both groups suggested they were disturbed by their existing publishers’ injunctions ...
- Democrats Announce “Love Train” - Crooked TimberI, for one, had been fearing that Satire was in trouble, surfeited in the Dubyah years on facts that made the
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