Sean Herrington maps a conversation that keeps going somehow. This vegan debate has a baseline problem, and it is not the one the bloggers think they are having. Both sides already have conclusions. One side folds a complicated empirical question into a moral binary and calls the work finished. The...
In which you attend Inkhaven II and learn that a trifle is sort of like a Giga tiramisu [not previously in any series, because you have never finished one] There is a compound in Berkeley. It has whiteboards in the hallways, houses named after dead mathematicians, a podcast room, and...
I’ve been an environmental lawyer for three decades, mostly representing indigenous and conservation groups in their goals to slow or stop fossil fuel development in the Arctic. One of my foundational approaches has been the precautionary principle, which has various formulations but essentially says, “where there are threats of serious...
cross-posted at https://open.substack.com/pub/laylahughes/p/sophisticated-horoscope?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web I asked ChatGPT a simple question about Daniel Kahneman’s affect heuristic. Twenty messages later, I was locked in what felt like an epistemological hostage negotiation, demanding to know how an AI had seemingly assembled a psychological profile of me that I had never consented to create. The...