Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Cancelling China (2) by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to sean samis. Thank you. Will respond to your comments on Ukraine/Russia this weekend. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on A Birthday Thank-You to My Mother by Irfan Khawaja
That’s a very sweet remembrance. Do you mind if I categorize it under “Memorials and Obituaries”? The last fifteen years of my teaching career were spent teaching students who were ill-prepared for college, and often unmotivated to do…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Mearsheimer on Ukraine by mlyoung57
I read the Mearsheimer. I’m not sure what I think regarding what the U.S. or NATO did or should now do with respect to expanding NATO eastward — that is a complicated issue requiring lots of strategy-relevant information that I don’t …
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(Coding Horror) The 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet
It’s my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the 501(c)(3) charity of the winner’s choice:By January 1st, 2030, completely autonomous self-driving cars meeting SAE J3016 level 5 will be commercially
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Cancelling China (2) by sean samis
Well written, Irfan. sean s. LikeLike
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(QC RSS) The Velvet Rope
RIP marigold’s dad
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: How the Weak Can Win – A Primer on Protracted War
Thanks to our volunteer narrator, this post is now available in audio format. This week, in an effort to fill in some of the theoretical basis for thinking about how weaker powers think about fighting against or defending themselves from stronger powers, I’m going to give you all a basic 101-level survey of the theory…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Mearsheimer on Ukraine by sean samis
I haven’t had a chance to watch the Mearsheimer video yet; I plan to do that this weekend. But at lunch I was surfing the internet and came across an interview in the New Yorker with Mearsheimer from Tuesday. Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for th…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Mearsheimer on Ukraine by sean samis
In reply to EissaMo (@EissaMo8). I don’t do Twitter, could you kindly provide links to Chomsky’s videos? I can look at them after I get your links. sean s. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on A Birthday Thank-You to My Mother by Stephen Boydstun
Roderick, Thank you so much for writing this and for the link for additional parts of the story of your amazing mother and your life! Man alive, the differences in family/cultural settings of our beginnings! One’s home at the start is so much wit…
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