If you enjoy this article, please check out my free book by clicking Here: “Something to Read in Quarantine: Essays 2018-2020.” Natural Language Processing (NLP) per Wikipedia: “Is a subfield of linguistics, computer science, information engineering, and artificial intelligence concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages, in particular how to program computers to … Continue reading In light of the GPT-3 buzz, I’m reposting an essay I previously wrote on NLP, philosophy and speculation on the possibility of a “linguistic path” to general intelligence.

If you're a young scholar and you want to understand debates in social theory, sociology, literature, political philosophy, history and the history of ideas, one of the most important and time effective things you do is read the communist manifesto if you haven't already. It's also one of the easiest things you can do. It … Continue reading Meet the spectre: Read the communist manifesto

Spontaneous protests don't normally have formal lists of demands, and that's right and good. Nonetheless I was thinking about some things that the current protest movement in America could demand. For a while the idea of "no demands!" was very popular on the left, but these days the strategy of not making clear demands has … Continue reading What are some things the ongoing protests in America could demand?

So many of the lines that people spout about the current uprising in the US are bullshit. The point has been well made that the very same people who recommend peaceful protest instead condemned Kapernick et al. oddly it was JFK who said- "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." Or … Continue reading Violence & uprisings- links

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While I've got your attention check out my book here. It's free so long as you promise to respect social distancing as best as you can. On March 1st Pew research released a paper outlining the evolution of different generation's political views over time. A question that has long been dear to my heart is, … Continue reading The Political Trajectory of Millenials in America

"Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable." … Continue reading A very important quote

Something to read in Quarantine- Essays 2018 to 2020 v3- Click here. While you're here if you came from Slate Star Codex you may also enjoy my long autopsychographical poem, Deadwater which you can find here.  

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