Types of Inflation
Photo by regularguy.eth on Unsplash Most everybody knows what inflation is or, at least, has felt the effects of inflation....
Philosophy
A Look at ‘The Sunny Nihilist: A Declaration of the Pleasure of Pointlessness’ by Wendy Syfret
Not long ago, I bought a copy of The Sunny Nihilist: A Declaration of the Pleasure of Pointlessness. I'd been...
Turns Out Knowingness Is a Word, and a Useful Word at That
Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash Knowingness is, "a posture of always ‘already knowing’, of purporting to know the answers...
The Genetic Fallacy and the Culture War
Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash The culture war is a veritable bonanza of logical fallacies. There are tons of...
Repenters, Repressors, and PoC Intelligentsia
Photo by Mike Von on Unsplash Liam Kofi Bright wrote a fascinating article called "White Psycodrama". (Available here: White Psychodrama...
A Third Post on ChatGPT
Photo by DeepMind on Unsplash The first two posts are here and here. Yesterday I "wrote" a post describing what...
Some Thoughts on ChatGPT
Photo by Andrea De Santis on Unsplash Everyone seems to be freaking out about Large Language Models lately. These troll...
If a Tree Falls in a Forest. . .
Photo by Dylan McLeod on Unsplash When I was in college, shortly after I declared philosophy as my major, I...
Nihilism and Meaning
Photo by Pop & Zebra on Unsplash Nihilism is the idea that life is meaningless. In popular thought, a nihilist...
An Argument Against Meritocracy
Photo by Mareko Tamaleaa on Unsplash Meritocracy seems great. Who could be against the idea of people getting economic benefits,...
