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A little meta-criticism
I grow suspicious when someone praises a work of art by saying “It’s not about X, it’s really about Y,” where X is the immediate subject matter and Y is some lofty theme that is supposedly embedded in...
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Strategy Reporting
When I turn on the news I very rarely hear political issue reporting. What I hear is political strategy reporting, and I don’t know what to make of it. Let’s say there’s a candidate running in some...
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Overconfidence
I’m tired of seeing bits of social science research taken out of context and presented to the public in soundbites that purport to offer insight into life — strategies for being happy or successful....
View ArticleArt and Weed
Not that anyone asked, but I thought I’d take fifteen hundred words to state my personal aesthetic philosophy. Although I never became a regular or even infrequent user of marijuana, my thoughts about...
View ArticleFree Will
Not that anyone asked, but I thought I’d take fifteen hundred words to describe my position on free will. We make countless choices each day, and we feel that these choices are ours, that they...
View ArticleBeauty is an experience, not a thing
The composer and podcaster Samuel Andreyev recently posted a video asking whether avant-garde music can be beautiful. In answering yes, he claims that “The category of the beautiful is incredibly...
View ArticleThe Critic vs. The Advocate
If we treat our opinions like prized possessions, like gems that must be protected from theft and insult, perhaps that is because we see them as expressions of our true self. In defending our opinions...
View ArticleEvidence of effort
Why do we pay attention when someone shouts? It’s not only because the sound is loud – it blocks other sounds and hurts our ears. It’s not only because there’s a social norm that shouting indicates...
View ArticleThe Insult of AI Creativity
Why do we value creativity? Of course, we often don’t. Creativity may go unrecognized, or it may be perceived as a nuisance, a weird thing, a threat to authority and convention. But when we do value...
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