Annie Dillard should have won the Nobel - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Jonas Gardsby7h ago
by Jonas Gardsby Annie Dillard is now ineligible for the Nobel Prize. The Swedish Academy won’t award it posthumously.
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3 Quarks Dailyby David Kordahl8h ago
by David Kordahl A few years ago, while writing about the Golem series by the sociologists Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch, I bought their first coauthored book, Frames of Meaning: The social...
Pilgrimage to Los Angeles - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Eli Rarey9h ago
by Eli Rarey Lately I have been drawn to trees. I moved across the country from Detroit to Los Angeles, and while I’ve been looking for a new apartment I have been noticing the trees nearby.
Scott Alexander: An Open Letter To Steven Pinker On AI - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby S. Abbas Raza1d ago
Scott Alexander at Astral Codex Ten: Dear Steven: Earlier this month, frustrated by some of your social media posts, I challenged you to a public debate on AI.
While Yet You Are Still Burning Inside My Brain - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Charles Siegel1d ago
by Charles Siegel A couple of weeks ago, I was listening to the SiriusXM “Real Jazz” channel while driving.
“Hell, Yes, It Was Smuggled” — Stolen gods and the museum down the street - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Leanne Ogasawara2d ago
by Leanne Ogasawara It all started, as these things so often do, with love at first sight. It was a humid evening in Bangkok in 1957, when a young British businessman, Douglas Latchford, found...
Jefferson The Incomprehensible - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Michael Liss3d ago
by Michael Liss I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Oppressed and Oppressor - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby David Winner and Angela Starita3d ago
by David Winner Half a lifetime ago when I first got to New York, I saw a piece of performance art in Williamsburg at a place called The Bog.
Universe 25 and the Problem of Utopia - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Marianne Janack4d ago
by Marianne Janack The distinction between utopias and dystopias is often murky. In Ursula LeGuin’s story, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”, a utopian society is built on suffering; Lois...
"Wenn Die Blatter trieben:" Autumn in Rilke - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Christopher Hall4d ago
by Christopher Hall Certain essays hit you like a thunderbolt. As someone who has suffered from episodes of debilitating anxiety, I found Freud’s concept of the death-drive as outlined in Beyond...
The Money of the Mind - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Lei Wang4d ago
by Lei Wang The money of the mind is attention, I read recently in the first line of a poem, which may as well be a poetry x LinkedIn post title collaboration.
Knowledge Lost in Information (Implanted Beliefs, part 2) - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Tim Sommers6d ago
by Tim Sommers This is the second of two parts [part 1 is here] on whether implanted beliefs can count as knowledge. The question matters outside science fiction.
Founding Rapist: Judging Thomas Jefferson by the Standards of His Time - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Robert Jensen6d ago
by Robert Jensen Conclusive evidence is in from new DNA tests: Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings.
Remembrance of Things Post- 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Jim Hanas7d ago
by Jim Hanas I met Derrida in Memphis in 1993. We were standing by a pool and he was smoking a cigar. I’m sure I was smoking a cigarette. I was twenty-four.
The Last Experiment - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Ashutosh Jogalekar8d ago
by Ashutosh Jogalekar As the relentless march of AI in science continues, I found myself pondering the other day whether there ever would be a time when a human scientist would do the last human...
Pebbles - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby David Greer8d ago
by David Greer To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.
Tuesday Poem - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Jim Culleny9d ago
September 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And...
Book Review of "To Taste: On Cooking and the Good Life" by Scott Samuelson - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Dwight Furrow9d ago
by Dwight Furrow It’s not intimate, it’s philosophy. That sounds like something ChatGPT would say but there is truth in it. Philosophical writing is seldom intimate.
Help! There’s A Demon In My RAM! - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Carlota Figueroa9d ago
by Carlota Figueroa Picture this: it’s Friday at 10:30 pm, and you have an 11:59 pm deadline that you thought was much easier than it actually is.
Will Constitutional Originalists Help Save Chief Justice Roberts, the Supreme Court, and the Country from a Midterm Elections Crisis? - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Ken MacVey10d ago
by Ken MacVey Chief Justice Roberts in his 2005 confirmation hearing famously testified that as a Supreme Court justice his job was not to “pitch or bat” but to be an “umpire” calling “balls and...