Saturday, September 29th, 2007
Invoking the name of the Lord, a quantitative history#
Brown University in the Eighties#
Larry Craig and Thomas Schelling#
Lesser Known C. S. Lewis quotes. After a teenagehood of reading Lewis, I am often amazed at how often LDS people quote him, given his extreme antagonism to LDS ideas, such as marriage in heaven.#
If Education is signaling then...?#
Just because education is largely signaling, it does not follow that students are not learning anything! The point, rather, is that students are not learning job skills. I don't deny that students learn history in school; I just deny that knowledge of history makes people (historians aside) into measurably better workers.
How Culture Exploits Men (and more)#
Chocolate doesn't have caffeine#
Political Corruption is a Symptom -- The Problem is Political Power#
Why Are Creeds an Abomination?#
Latter-day Prophets And The Divine Council#
Rationality and the English Language:#
Some rationalists will try to analyze a misleading phrase, try to see if there might possibly be anything meaningful to it, try to construct a logical interpretation. They will be charitable, give the author the benefit of the doubt. Authors, on the other hand, are trained not to give themselves the benefit of the doubt. Whatever the audience thinks you said is what you said, whether you meant to say it or not; you can't argue with the audience no matter how clever your justifications.
A writer knows that readers will not stop for a minute to think. A novel-experience is a continuous stream of first impressions. A writer-rationalist pays attention to the experience words create.
A Problematic Parable of Evil#
Women Dressed As Ninjas Rob Gas Station With Sword#
If ever there were a game that stood to make a solid argument for the ongoing debate of whether games can qualify as art, Eternal Sonata stands as a shining example.