I still go back to Magee’s programmes from time to time. It is quite extraordinary that with many a genuine expert by his side, he quite often rearticulated an argument better than his expert guests — the mark of a fine and honest expository mind, devoid of the activistic fuckwittery that has come to tarnish…
Available gratis from The Oxford Handbook of Freedom. Adam SmithautonomyCass Sunsteinchoicefreedomimpartial spectatorJames OttesonLibertarianismLibertyRichard Thaler
The fifth installment of Marc Champagne’s podcast. To keep apprised of Marc’s work see his website. ArchetypesCarl JungcultureJordan PetersonMarc ChampagneNature
If you like a wine that is the qualic embodiment of a dank medieval cellar (and per chance you also like the most pungent of soft cheeses, say Époisses) then this Morgon which I had at Joe Beef will be a most memorable experience. Other available Morgons, as good as they were, never lived up to this one. Here…
Going on the sample alone this could well be the most funktastic release of the year. Very excited about this upcoming from Noladelic PowerFunk due May 4. acid funkfunknew orleans
Twenty years on I guess this marks the moment when the hypothesis of extended cognition has well and truly become mainstream. This in The New Yorker. Andy ClarkArtificial intelligenceCognitive sciencedistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeExtended MindPhilosophy of mindsituated cognition
Gábor István Bíró in the Journal of Evolutionary Economics. Economicsevolutionary economicsexpertiseFriedrich HayekkeynesMichael Polanyipolitical economyTacit knowledgethe sensory order
The Antinomy of Language Examples of the linguistic assertion S is P. Dr. ltard writes in The Savage of Aveyron that he tried to teach Victor the wild boy the word for milk, lait, as a sign of a biological need, by withholding the milk and uttering the word in its absence. This failed: After…
The regressive Left’s identitarian-intersectionalism fetish (sadly with many IYI Jews in their ranks) are the Trojan Horse of Jew hatred. Their shallow and incoherent identitarian politics presents a threefold danger: (1) white supremacist groups have now been relicensed to play that game. And yet, the regressives find their primary purpose as Nazi hunters, the uptick of…
H/T Brian Smith. This from the Law & Liberty blog. Age of EnlightenmentArtificial intelligencebenjamin constantilliberalismJames PoulosJohn Stuart MillLiberalismNetwork ScienceSocial network
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