(With apologies to Rosa Luxemburg) How does the defeat of “Primary season” appear? Was it a case of raging, uncontrollable revolutionary energy colliding with an insufficiently ripe situation, or was it a case of weak and indecisive action? Both! The crisis had a dual nature. The contradiction between the powerful, decisive, aggressive offensive of the … Continue reading Order prevails in Washington

After the quarantining of the 17th of March President Donald J. Trump Had programming distributed on Fox and Friends Stating that the people Had forfeited the confidence of the stock market And could only win it back By increased work quotas And the sacrifice of the old But Would it not in that case be … Continue reading The Economic Solution (After Bertol Brecht)

GPT-2 is a machine learning application designed for language modelling- that is predicting the word most likely to follow the proceeding string of words. It turns out that to be good at language modelling over diverse corpuses you’ve got to be very good at mimicking many things- including philosophy. I prompted an online version of … Continue reading GPT-2 Among the philosophers: Prompting a language bot with philosophical content

1. Three figures sit in a cave, a fourth approaches carrying a burning bushel. Urg: You know fire? Well I’ve figured out to start it. It’s a cold winter, so I’m thinking we should set everything on fire. Gru: That’s madness! Fire burns us, it is our natural enemy. We should instead splash everything with … Continue reading The Invention of Fire