Month: October 2021

by liberal japonicus Couple of links for you https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/butterflies-parasitic-wasps-finland https://www.npr.org/2021/10/11/1045084704/an-invasive-plant-is-taking-over-the-kansas-prairie-it-may-be-too-late-to-stop-i But that’s plants you say Scientists Built an AI to Give Ethical Advice, But It Turned Out Super Racist A bit of opining here, Something to consider when people suggest that we can just science our way out of climate change. But open thread, so … Read more

Meet the Toaloans, not to be confused with the Talosians. Discuss.

by liberal japonicus An interesting article about mindreading and its relation to a theory of the mind. In one of those ‘papers I want to write but will probably never get around to’, I wanted to make the argument that teaching students, Japanese student in particular, how to lie was a key component of communicative … Read more

by liberal japonicus In the red corner, all the way from Mother Russia, the killer with Karenina, he knows war and he knows peace, Leeeeeooooooo Tolstoy! And in the blue corner, the champion, the man coming to bury you, not praise you, from that scepter’d isel, Willlllllll Shakespeare!!! Are you ready to rumble??? https://bigthink.com/high-culture/tolstoy-shakespeare/