New links…
- “50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know” — a short story by Ken Liu
- “We need a moratorium on new rules and new software purchases until we’ve pruned what does not serve the fundamental mission of teaching and learning and in fact gets in the way of it” — Barry Lam on higher ed’s techno-bureaucratic bloat, in the Boston Globe (unpaywalled here)
- “When What Rightly Matters Doesn’t Really Matter” — Lisa Tessman’s Presidential Address at the 2024 Eastern Division APA meeting
- “Is there dumb wokeness in the academy? Of course. But if we are truly interested in whether it is prominent, representative, isolated [etc.]… we are going to need a more sophisticated methodology than repeated applications of the availability bias” — Steven Hales on caricatures of the academy
- Humpback whales to the rescue — the possibility of animal altruism (via MR)
- “Self-deception is very easy. For that reason, I do think clear thinking is immensely important. But I don’t think philosophy in the old-fashioned sense is quite the thing the world needs nowadays” (via Open Culture) — a 1952 television interview with Bertrand Russell (transcript here)
- Can laws be unjust and yet remain, in some sense, morally legitimate? — Jonathan Quong and Blain Neufeld discuss this and related questions taken up in Quong’s new book on “legitimate injustice”
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