I'm fascinated, like all of us are, by the progress that LLM's have made and "artificial intelligence". I feel completely overwhelmed, though, as a teacher. I don't know what we need to be teaching. Okay, for one thing, I feel like we're all going to get hooked on using AIs for various things, and pretty... Continue Reading →
The Pursuit of Happiness
Once again, I'm promoting the excellent podcast Philosophize This! which talks about the history of philosophy. Stephen West has moved on to John Locke (episode no. 35), and I'm finding myself profoundly disturbed. I learned about John Locke, inadvertently, when I studied the US Constitution when I was in school: "We hold these truths to... Continue Reading →
The Way to Hell is Paved….
So there's two competing philosophies between "Fool me once, shame on you; Fool me twice shame on me" and "Turning the other cheek". One says that we should learn from our mistakes and if we make the same ones again, it's kind of our fault, the other says that we should give things a second... Continue Reading →
The Depressed Hairdressers
I visited the very south of South America once, a town called Punta Arenas. It was the way in and out of the Torres del Paine park, where I was going for a trek. Punta Arenas is windy, a lot of the time. It made it to no. 4 of the world's windiest cities on... Continue Reading →
Moove your cow, and your mind will follow. 