Tag: Terry Teachout

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News
Date
December 14, 2018

Categorized
Machine Learning, Social Factors, Technocracy, Work

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Glenn Reynolds, Jack Dorsey, Longform, Terry Teachout, Twitter}

No, Twitter Is Not the New Awful

_{It’s the Old Awful back for more. It’s the Town Without Pity we all tried to get away from} _{News
December 14, 2018

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Machine Learning, Social Factors, Technocracy, Work}

We need to decide: Is Twitter the telephone company (a communications platform), the newspaper (a publisher), or interconnected private gossip klatsches where anyone can say whatever they want, whatever ensues?

Tom Stoppard’s New Play Tackles Consciousness Itself

_{Consciousness is a hard problem for science, principally because no one quite understands what makes us the subjects of our experiences.} _{Mind Matters
November 26, 2018

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Philosophy of Mind, Social Factors}

According to one critic, the problem that has preoccupied Stoppard throughout his career is “Are the materialists right, or is there more to man than mere flesh?”