- Almanac: Erich Fromm on death
“To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.” Erich Fromm, Man for Himself Continue reading Almanac: Erich Fromm on death at About Last Night.... Read more
Military-grade camera shows risks of airborne coronavirus spread
Four in 10 households report lower income than pre-pandemic, threatening economic recovery NBC. The deck: “Around 6 percent of surveyed households said they have given up hope that their income will ever recover.”
Left-Wing Hypomania The Battler. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. –Dwight D. Eisenhower
Are We Just Buying Time? ‘An Urgent Need To Reconfigure The Whole Socioeconomic System’ The Heisenberg Report
Portrait of the philosopher as a young man: the first volume of Michael Heinrich’s biography of Marx globalinequality
Little Bad Thing: true stories about the things we wish we hadn’t done — a new podcast from Eleanor Gordon-Smith (Princeton, The Ethics Centre)
The philosopher who worked as Trotsky’s right hand man, had an affair with Frida Kahlo, and wrote about logic — Ray Monk (Southampton) on Jean van Heijenoort
“Researchers often require deception in their studies, yet they receive little training on how to deceive effectively” — “the field of magic offers a potential solution” (via MR)
“Leaders in the field of AI ethics are arguing that the company pushed her out because of the inconvenient truths that she was uncovering about a core line of its research—and perhaps its bottom line” — Google gets rid of an ethicist who pointed out risks of its large language models
Philosophy, science, and uncertainty — Simon Blackburn (Cambridge, UNC), Philip Goff (Durham), and Renata Salecl (Birkbeck, Ljubljana) discuss
Did Einstein really agree with Spinoza’s pantheism? — Snopes is on the case
“Debate over high-stakes moral issues isn’t always the best option, because the conditions for truth-seeking discussion to take hold are missing” — Malcolm Keating (Yale-NUS) on what we can learn about debate and discussion from pre-modern Indian philosophy
