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Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Caged Pedestrians

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It's too early for “robot rights”

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Caputo, Nicholas, Can Claude Consent to its own Constitution? AI Constitutionalism and the Paradox of Constituent Power (June 10, 2026). Av...

Pink hydrangeas

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Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Peter Thiel contra Pope Leo

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Peter Thiel, the billionaire founder of Palantir, called Pope Leo “a Chinese communist agent” for writing that AI must be used to “truly ben...

The Copernican Revolution, a Quick Note about Rank Shift

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One of the problems in the presentation of cultural rank theory is that it is easy to think of it as a step function. When David Hays and ...

When you're short and taking photos from within a crowd [July 4, 2026]

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Monday, July 6, 2026

Stop merely predicting a shorter workweek and make it happen.

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Joanne Lipman, Sorry, A.I. Is Not Giving Us a Four-Day Workweek , NYTimes , July 6, 2027. Some of the brightest minds in business belie...

Return to a table top at Turning Point

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Once more into the breech: The problem with the humanities (not quite)

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That’s a facebook post by Michael Bérubé . There’s a bunch of comments, which you’re welcome to read by scrolling over to Facebook. I’m p...
Sunday, July 5, 2026

What can we learn from Nordic happiness?

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Nicholas Kristof, What We Should Learn From Nordic Happiness , NYTimes , July 4, 2026. You want security, health care and the American ...
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Fireboats spraying their way up the Hudson River

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AI is in the market for philosophers

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Benjamin Wallace, The Revenge of the Philosophy Majors , NYTimes , July 5, 2026. After a capsule presentation of the intellectual itiner...
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Pope Leo and St. Augustine discuss the mind and A.I. with Kurt Gödel

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I crafted the prompt and Claude drafted the dialog using a passage about memory from Augustine’s Confessions as the catalyst for the imagi...
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Saturday, July 4, 2026

Tall ships on the Hudson River, July 4, 2026

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Four Propositions about Intelligence in Animals, Humans, and AIs

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Some quickies. 1. Intelligence cannot be reduced to computation All animal perception and cogitation take place in a complex world w...
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