Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Danny O’Brien’s Oblomovka) unclassy acts
I wonder how many socioeconomic classes I’ve really hopped? There’s definitely a version of my bio that let’s me sound rags to riches: Basildon (so déclassé even the rest of Essex looked down on it) to Oxford and a weird proximity to Tory grandees of the future, to Silicon Valley where I sat close on…
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(Policy of Truth) Defining “Wokeness”: Socratic Dialogues with Bethany Mandel
The Bethany Mandel “define wokeness” controversy manages to be illuminating and absurd at the same time. Mandel, for the uninitiated, is an American anti-woke polemicist who’s apparently written a book on the subject of wokeness, and generally made a sophistical career of attacking it. She was recently invited to a YouTube talk show on wokeness,…
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(Our World in Data) Two centuries of rapid global population growth will come to an end
Global population has increased rapidly over the past century. This period of rapid growth is temporary: the world is entering a new equilibrium and rapid population growth is coming to an end.
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(Danny O’Brien’s Oblomovka) ai-eeeeee
I have a couple of friends who (like my other friend below, who is also not made up) are very irritated by the non-stop AI/GPT coverage. I’m really intrigued by the hard and somewhat arbitrary line between those — like me, I admit — who are just endlessly fascinated by all its developments, and those…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: How to Polis, 101, Part IIa: Politeia in the Polis
This is the second post of our three-part series (I) looking at the structure of the ancient Greek polis. Last week we looked at how the Greeks understood the component parts of a polis, so this week we’re going to look at how those parts were governed. The Greek term for the structure of a…
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(Danny O’Brien’s Oblomovka) some fire in me yet
So I’ll keep this one short: it feels like I’m getting back into my stride, and I managed to knock out 2000 words on cognitive liberty and decentralization for a (shh secret) magazine that Mike Masnick is editing for us at the Foundation. The bad news is that my brief was 800-1000 words, but hey,…
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(QC RSS) She’s On A List
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Sleepwalking Through Affirmation Culture by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to butimbeautiful. I think there are two relevant considerations when it comes to cancellations–culpability and harm. The two often go together, but sometimes come apart. Culpability has to do with how blameworthy or wrong an action is. …
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(Cat and Girl) Kids Today!
This is a syndicated post, originally published by Dorothy at Cat and Girl.
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – No loser
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