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Monthly Archives: May 2016
Ascended Economy?
[Obviously speculative futurism is obviously speculative. Complex futurism may be impossible and I should feel bad for doing it anyway. This is “inspired by” Nick Land – I don’t want to credit him fully since I may be misinterpreting him, … Continue reading
Book Review: Age of Em
[Note: I really liked this book and if I criticize it that’s not meant as an attack but just as what I do with interesting ideas. Note that Robin has offered to debate me about some of this and I’ve … Continue reading
Three Great Articles On Poverty, And Why I Disagree With All Of Them
QZ: The universal basic income is an idea whose time will never come. Okay, maybe this one isn’t so great. It argues that work is ennobling (or whatever), that robots probably aren’t stealing our jobs, that even if we’re going … Continue reading
OT50: Opentecost
This is the bi-weekly open thread. Post about anything you want, ask random questions, whatever. Also: 1. Thanks to Douglas Knight, who proposed a new system of open threads I think I’ll be using from now on. There is an … Continue reading
Teachers: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
[Epistemic status: This is really complicated, this is not my field, people who have spent their entire lives studying this subject have different opinions, and I don’t claim to have done more than a very superficial survey. I welcome corrections … Continue reading
Open Thread 49.75
Not really sure where I’m going with this, but let’s try it.
Open Thread 49.5
This is an experiment with more open threads. Post about anything you want, ask random questions, whatever.
Skin In The Game
I. One of the most interesting responses I got to my post supporting the junior doctors strike was by Salem, who said that this situation was (ethically) little different than that around adjunct professors, who also become overworked and miserable … Continue reading
Solidarity
[Epistemic status: I am not British, it’s been years since I’ve been in the HSE, and the HSE is not the NHS. All of this may be misunderstood or outdated.] I don’t usually blog on labor disputes here, but I … Continue reading
Links 5/16: Linko de Mayo
The Theory Of Deadly Initials proposed that people whose initials spelled out negative words, like D.I.E. or B.A.D., died earlier because of the associated stress. People believed this for years before someone figured out it was all based on bad … Continue reading