antecedents have consequences
This is a brief update to let you know that I’m still alive. I appreciate the inquiries. I considered writing a question-and-answer section here, but it was completely insufferable. Needless to say: I haven’t been writing, now I am. I had to spend some time remembering first. Feel free to ask questions in the comment … Continue reading "Updates for 2019"
You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there. -Yogi Berra I The previous essay was inescapably dense, the abstract territory was by nature abstract, the subject matter happened to be the entire past year of this blog. I think the technical language of … Continue reading "Love and Happiness"
continued from here. note: this is doing a lot of groundwork, so it’s pretty dense. 1 Philosophy may or may not be useless, I say we showed the opposite. Why? Book IV: And Adeimantus interrupted and said, “What would your apology be, Socrates, if someone were to say that you’re hardly making these men happy, … Continue reading "Slightly less than truths. IV-V."
plato without platonism
notes on Kuhn and relativism
on Thomas Kuhn and metis
on the book of samuel and samizdats
related to: Enter a search term, e.g. “democracy” and Everything is Going According to Plan I The last essay I wrote can be summed up in a sentence: measurement won’t tell you anything unless you know what you’re measuring and why you’re measuring it. This seems obvious and reasonable, which is why it invariably attracts criticism. There are … Continue reading "Democracy Scales Are Still Bad, and…
I The Economist: Democracy continues its disturbing retreat The US has been classified as a “flawed democracy” by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)’s Democracy Index for the second year in a row. First, in 2016 (study released 2017), and now 2017 (released 2018). I’m going to privilege year under study and call the first the 2016 … Continue reading "Enter a search term, e.g. “democracy”"
on nihilism