New interesting things elsewhere…

1. “Affirm the real existence of everything that is left over of the human, once politics is subtracted. Authoritarianism, practically by definition, does not want to find anything left over. It does not know what to do with that remainder.” — Justin Smith-Ruiu on changing the world
2. “I’m not the philosopher king who gets to declare and enforce my judgments about what is frivolous. No one should be.” — Steven Hales on complaints about the public funding of supposedly “frivolous” research
3. “Number of times the Wikipedia entry about the ship of Theseus has been edited since it was published in 2003: 2,052” — “Number of sentences from the original entry that remain today: 0”
4. “Wank… is to be distinguished both from lies and from bullshit: the two other forms of bad-faith speech that have been wrecking our societies for the last few decades” — a theory of wank by Iris Meredith
5. “In a world increasingly governed by algorithms that decide for us, Harsanyi’s challenge is more relevant than ever” — an appreciation of John Harsanyi’s work makes it into Italy’s financial newspaper of record
6. “A proposition that would be true if and only if it were untrue would be a logically impossible object” — Ben Burgis explains and defends his preferred solution to the liar paradox
7. “We always live these philosophical dilemmas. It’s not that they’re so abstract: every day we have to make decisions, we have to choose between different kinds of obligations” — Lea Ypi is interviewed about her recent book, Indignity

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