White Lotus - Jennifer Coolidge shares her rules for life at packed out Sydney show
Tackling some token gesture tax issues will not end the egregious inequality built into the UK tax system
The Good Law Project issued a press release this morning saying: Good Law Project and Dale Vince, founder of Ecotricity, have launched a legal challenge
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HOMER SIMPSON HARDEST HIT: Connecticut court rules that obesity is not a disability
Husbands with Much Higher Incomes Than Their Wives Have a Lower Chance of Divorce.“Research in evolutionary psychology suggests that financial prospects are more of a priority for women than men when choosing a spouse, and that this is the case around the world.”
On anger management. "Anger does not take place in a void. It is largely a moral emotion, most frequently triggered by perceived injustice, and profoundly important for social change." P.S. read to the end of this...
Why is it so hard to buy things that work well? Dan Luu (Jason Boxman). Very dense, very long, very thought-provoking. “[I]f we think about things from the vendor side of things, there’s little incentive to produce working products since the combination of the fog of war plus making false claims about a product working seems to be roughly as good as making a working product…, and it’s much cheaper.
The Man Who Knows What the World’s Richest People Want (and How To Get It) Vice. Structurally (sociolologically) this is extremely interesting. How many other people are “two degrees of separation from any significant gatekeeper in the world,” and what do they do?
- Publish or perish: high school edition — some high schoolers (whose parents can afford it) are producing “published” “research” to get into college (via Andy Lamey)
- “Phenomenal realism seems so obviously plausible [but] it has so little going for it apart from its obviousness” — this makes it an especially vulnerable thesis, argues Daniel Pallies (Lingnan) at his new blog
- “To be an addict is to be vulnerable to what I call the ‘bear-trap model of punishment’” — T. Virgil Murthy (CMU) interviewed about addiction and being an alcoholic philosopher when “alcohol is everywhere in the philosophy world”
- Analytic and Continental philosophy had this in common: they were “obsessed with language” — Crispin Sartwell (Dickinson) on the linguistic turn and the “turn away from the linguistic turn”
- What the AI image generator Midjourney “thinks” professors look like — by discipline
- “As a student, the assumption I’ve encountered among authority figures is that if an essay is written with the help of ChatGPT, there will be some sort of evidence” — “In reality, it’s very easy to use AI to do the lion’s share of the thinking while still submitting work that looks like your own”
- “Abstract objects are objects that can’t enter into causal relations. If you believe in them, you must suppose that reality divides into two radically different realms” — an interview with Peter van Inwagen (Notre Dame) at 3:16AM
