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ken taylor

May 27, 2023

Thats Another Fine Mess

TINA TURNEER

TCINLA

MAY 24, 2023

Thats Another Fine Mess

TINA TURNER

The first time I saw Ike and Tina was the weekend before JFK was assassinated. They opened for the Righteous Brothers at the Cinnamon Cinder, a former bowling alley turned into a dance club in San Diego. The Righteous Brothers were in trouble, having to compete with Tina. Like every man up to and including Mick Jagger…

2 years ago · 110 likes · 48 comments · TCinLA

Whatever Its Future, AI Is a Poor History Teacher

I asked ChatGPT to imagine a conversation between John Adams and Alexander Hamilton.

DANIEL SHERRIER

MAY 17, 2023

God of the Desert Books

Whatever Its Future, AI Is a Poor History Teacher

I succumbed to curiosity and played around with ChatGPT. I can’t deny that I’m concerned about some of the potential excesses of artificial intelligence, especially if the technology develops further, but I’m also hoping that some good emerges from the technology…

2 years ago · Daniel Sherrier

Philosophy of science

Essay

Why not scientism?

Science is not the only form of knowledge but it is the best, being the most successful epistemic enterprise in history

by Moti Mizrahi

https://aeon.co/essays/science-is-not-the-only-form-of-knowledge-but-it-is-the-best?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=bb5fcffa0f-EMAIL_CAM

In cosmology, all our errors lean the same way. The implications are... interesting

Our universe always turns out to be bigger, more structured, more complex, and more weirdly efficient, than we've anticipated. So what are we doing wrong?

JULIAN GOUGH

MAY 9, 2023

The Egg And The Rock

In cosmology, all our errors lean the same way. The implications are... interesting

OK, if I’m going to kick cosmology around the room in this post, I should probably define what it is first, and separate it out from astronomy as a whole. ASTRONOMY VERSUS COSMOLOGY Astronomy studies the objects we can see in our universe. (So: stars, planets, galaxies, etc…

2 years ago · 80 likes · 26 comments · Julian Gough

The Crucial Years

Maybe we should have called this planet 'Ocean'

Because then we'd be paying more attention to some truly freaky data

The Crucial Years

Maybe we should have called this planet 'Ocean'

2 years ago · 122 likes · 34 comments · Bill McKibben

The UnUtopian Optimist

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