I think I've said something along the lines of this before, but I'm going to say it again under the illusion that saying it will cause me to start acting on it ( Read more... )

Booyah! I (barely) passed my driving test!!

Now I am legally qualified to suck it up all over the road.

[On another note, this summer seems to be the Summer of Long Intellectual Arguments Over Message Boards. For some reason, I can't stay out of these fights... new hunting ground is the Critical Review message board, where I've got a couple ( Read more... )

...the more they stay the same ( Read more... )

Ok, I've put this off for a while--I wonder why? The Critical Review (henceforth CR) seminar was full of smart people and was pretty much non-stop thought about important things. I expected that it would all spill over into a giant post immediately when I came back. But I guess instead I faced some burnout, or maybe just made the appropriate ( Read more... )

Ok, this is one and a half of the things I told myself I'd do.

First,
Q: What is this Critical Review thing I keep talking about? (For those who haven't picked it up from context)

A: I'm not sure. My understanding is that the Critical Review is a classical liberal/libertarian political journal (not to be confused with Brown's student-written ( Read more... )

Here's an example of the sort of thing I've found convincing in the Critical Review readings. I mention it specifically because it occurred to me that it might be of direct interest to at least two people who may be reading this. It has to do with applying some basic economics to affordable housing (using San Francisco as a particular example ( Read more... )

I have just spent well over an hour, I think, defending the AI philosopher king, so I'll keep this short. I just got the readings and looked over the reading questions for the Critical Review seminar (which I have not discussed here yet, but plan to later) and it reeks, I mean reeks, of high-power ideological indoctrination ( Read more... )