I will admit now that I did not read all eight collected volumes of what is essentially a daily cultural column.
Tuning the Universe
Are we a mere accident, the chance result of comingling molecules in a primordial soup, brought into consciousness by a fluke of probability inevitable in an infinite universe? Are we a necessary extension of ever-increasing entropy, biological machines evolved to accelerate and further entropy’s conquest of order? Are we, rather, divinely created, the protagonists for which this setting was formed?
The Way to Wealth Review
If "folk philosophy" was a genre, it is where I would shelve The Way to Wealth, which is essentially a short collection of the best snippets of advice and clever nuggets of wisdom published over the years in Franklin’s own Poor Richard’s Almanac.
Good Omens Season 2 Reflections
Note the word "reflections" - this is not a review for the second season of the television version of Good Omens, but rather my thoughts after watching it. In other words, beware spoilers if you've not yet watched it.
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres Review
That the sun lies at the center of the solar system with the planets moving about it and the whole arrangement determined by gravity seems obvious to us today, but that is because we are surrounding by depictions of the solar system in that configuration.
Non-Linear History
History takes a convoluted, torturous, meandering path, full of backtracking, sideways digressions, and seemingly meaningless tangents and dead-ends.
Emerald Eyes Review
Aside from the fact that Moran clearly overestimated our pace of technological progress, the technology, society, and concepts featured and explored manage to feel nearly as speculative now as they must have then.
Testing AI, Students, 3
The proposed Weizenbaum test is so lacking in structure, objectivity, rigor, and specificity as to not even define what the grading scale or reference answers would be.
Laurus Review
If you are fascinated by faith, and constantly inquiring of history, like I am, then Laurus deserves a place near the top of your reading list.
Definition, Abstraction, and Language’s Limitation
Where I asserted that abstractions result in language’s limitations, my brother argued that language’s limitations cause its abstractions.
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