Nik’s Substack
Nik PrassasA blog about philosophy, economics, and the intersection of the two
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Machines cannot write books: An argument
There has only ever been one attempt to rigorously define what a book is. It was made by a young Boris Pasternak in 1926. These days we tend to think of books in computational terms. They are objects made out of strings of text. Those who h...
Wisdom and Tom Bombadil
No one has ever read The Lord of the Rings without becoming a partisan on the question of Tom Bombadil and his right to exist, or, as it is officially known in academic circles, die Bombadil-Frage.
Typically, on getting through chapters si...
Further Thoughts on Violence
A few posts back I wrote about an unlikely bit of correspondence between the novelist Georges Bernanos and Simone Weil, then a little known labour organiser working with factory unions in the Loire. In 1938 Bernanos found himself at the cen...
Getting to Macintyre's 'Disquieting Suggestion'
On the first page of After Virtue the late Alasdair Macintyre presents the following counterfactual:
Imagine that the natural sciences were to suffer the effects of a catastrophe. A series of environmental disasters are blamed by the ge...
Must Computers Play Games?
As it becomes increasingly likely that over 150 schoolgirls and their teachers in Iran were murdered in an airstrike conducted under the direction of an AI targeting algorithm, I wanted to bump this archived post up the deck.
Let's start w...
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