David Brooks has a new column out on empathy, this time about its limits. I was looking forward to reading it at first, mostly because I think Brooks has written intelligently about empathy in the past. In particular, when critics … Continue reading
Equality versus Efficiency Why Critics Praise Bad Poetry Post-Westphalian War? Fractions
A computer programmer named Jesse Anderson has set up millions of virtual typing monkeys, who in less than two months have completed 99.99% of Shakespeare’s repertoire. The method Anderson is using seems a bit like cheating to me – the … Continue reading
