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The post-literate age is here

Still from the movie Idiocracy

Rose Horowitch’s new Atlantic cover story is a fairly comprehensive read of something I’ve been writing about for a while in various ways: Americans on the whole are getting dumber as we in fact do get richer...

7 days ago
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Stanford's new freshman curriculum illustrates exactly what's wrong with college

Hoover Tower, Stanford University

I’ve been writing about the rot in higher education for a while now. In Half of Social Science Falls Apart Under Scrutiny, I covered how a massive seven-year DARPA-funded study found only half of social sc...

14 days ago
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Do you have a theory of mind for the other side?

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There’s a difference between not knowing what someone believes and not understanding why they believe it. Any shallow internet conversation on politics or really any hot topic treats these as the same thi...

21 days ago
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The DSA is rising in NYC

During Stalin’s reign, the Soviet Union forcibly sent millions of educated citizens, labeled “enemies of the people,” to labor camps across its vast territory. This is the logical endpoint of socialism, and yet people pretend it’s not real....

25 days ago
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Looper is the best movie about the pact with your future self

Light spoilers ahead for Looper, go watch it if you haven’t and read this one after.

I watched the movie Looper the other weekend at the suggestion of a friend, and immediately knew I had to write about it. The flick gets categorized as a...

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    Advocate for Human-First Intelligent Experiences. Recovering executive. Logic+Emotion refugee. GenX Philosopher. Keeping it real in an artificial world…

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