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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Chomsky on Ukraine by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Just saw the Freeman interview, and am totally on board. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Chomsky on Ukraine by Irfan Khawaja
Here’s the Freeman interview to which Chomsky alludes. I haven’t seen the whole thing, and can’t vouch for it beyond what Chomsky says. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Mearsheimer on Ukraine by Chomsky on Ukraine | Policy of Truth
[…] previously plugged John Mearsheimer’s views on Ukraine here, with generalized agreement but many misgivings. I have fewer misgivings about Chomsky’s […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Chomsky on Ukraine
I’ve previously plugged John Mearsheimer’s views on Ukraine here, with generalized agreement but many misgivings. I have fewer misgivings about Chomsky’s views, which are in the same anti-interventionist ballpark as Mearsheimer’s, at least as regards Ukraine, but without the problematic realist baggage. This interview with Nathan Robinson in Current Affairs seems the best of the…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Thank You For Your Swervice by David Potts
In reply to David Potts. On further reflection, I was too hasty in saying that the analysis of Newcomb’s Problem is basically the same as the one in the paper. The problem is that, whereas C is sufficient for ϕ-ing, the predictor putting the $1M in the…
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(Cat and Girl) Cat and Girl are Prepared
This is a syndicated post, originally published by Dorothy at Cat and Girl.
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: Expeditions: Rome and the Perils of Verisimilitude
This week we’re going to take a long look at Expeditions: Rome, a turn-based tactics RPG by developer Logic Artists, set in the first century BC Late Roman Republic. In particular, we’re going to look at how the game both constructs and uses its historical setting. This is a particularly important topic to discuss because…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Thank You For Your Swervice by David Potts
In reply to Roderick T. Long. “since atomic motion is deterministic, every post-swerve motion is deterministic until a new swerve comes along” How so? Since it’s causally undetermined when a swerve will occur, EVERY atomic motion is indeterministic, wh…
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(QC RSS) Song And Dance
get ’em, Beeps
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Thank You For Your Swervice by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. “I’ll examine them and reply more fully in future” Sure about that? LikeLike
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