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On this topic, here’s an email I sent to faculty at my university this morning: — In today’s NYT (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/opinion/tech-free-college-spaces.html)…
In addition to being an exemplary scholar, Bill was a wonderful human being. He was very kind and giving to…
The American approach, which treats everything as a sort of commercial transaction may be crass, but it is nevertheless a…
[…] propos an earlier thread here, this essay is illuminating and somewhat […]
Capitalism + AI = disaster. How surprising. Capitalism + anything = disaster. Certainly our kind of capitalism. It is ironic…
[…] two attackers opened fired on a Hannukah celebration at Bondi Beach in Australia. Because Australia is a civilized country,…
Hard-hitting article, which mentions one philosopher, John Tasioulas, who recently stepped down from the “Ethics in AI” project at Oxford to return to his native Australia. (When I ran into an Oxford person recently, she said they were instructed by lawyers “not to talk about” Tasioulas’s departure.)
UPDATE: Professor Tasioulas denies the allegations, and says he will take legal action.
[…] America’s turn towards “competitive authoritarianism,” and the prospects for recov… on Why I fear things will end badly for…