Thursday, June 7th, 2007
Software Engineers Who Don't Value Software#
(Hmm; perhaps an Ontology would be able to help with that.)
Does the Church have any obligation to "escapees" of modern polygamy?#
I don't think so at all, other than the general obligation to help our fellow man. The Church is in no way responsible for the actions of non-LDS polygamists, just like it is in no way responsible for the actions of Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc.
Special-Interest Secret, by Bryan Caplan#
An Alternate Theory of Unions, by Paul Graham#
Great Mormon Breeding Project#
On Avoiding Contention (Check out comment #2.)#
The Top Five Most Embarrassingly Mormon Ways of Meeting Your Spouse#
Interview with Christopher Hitchens#
Who cares what the neighbors think?#
Mormons at the University of Chicago Divinity School (Check out comment #5.)#
Why [He Doesn't] believe [the Many Worlds Interpretation] of Quantum Mechanics:#
First off let me 'fess up. Even though I often attack positions in philosophy as more a kind of wish fulfillment I fully admit I'm doing it here. That is I roll my eyes when people reject four dimensionalism because they want a certain kind of free will and openness of the future to be true. Yet here I'm definitely a hypocrite. In large measure I don't accept MWI because I don't want it to be true. (There's an old Larry Niven short story about a guy who thinks about MWI that really captures my feeling) If MWI is true then there is a copy of me out there that does horrible things. That really, really bothers me. The notion of "self," even if it is a problematic notion, is far, far more problematic in MWI.
Pew Forum Interview with Church Leaders#
Brain-eating zombies invade SF Apple Store#
Eric meets the Queen of England#
The difference between Marketing, PR, Advertising and Branding#
Awesome podcast with Robin Hanson on Heath#
Rapex: Rape Prevention through Fear#
On Praying to Mother in Heaven#
Should near death experiences change your life?#
I have no real data and only a few intuitions. I say use the experience to rationalize a change you wanted to make anyway.
Professional and Prolificating#
The Arabian Peninsula and the Book of Mormon: Jedidiah Morse Explains All?#