Archive for 2023

WELL, HE’S CERTAINLY AVOIDED EXPOSING US TO NATURAL INTELLIGENCE! Obama’s Gonna Save Us from Artificial Intelligence, Everybody. “First of all, it’s nice to know all the conspiracy theories about Obama scuttling around behind the scenes of this White House were absolutely true. Second, which is worse: artificial intelligence, or politicians exploiting artificial intelligence to further their ideology?”

NATE SILVER: Free speech is in trouble: Young liberals are abandoning it — and other groups are too comfortable with tit-for-tat hypocrisy.

Read the essay, but but game theory says that tit-for-tat is the best enforcement means for repeat interactions. “It encourages cooperation, it punishes defection, and it responds to each change in its opponent’s behavior.”

The only reason the Left traditionally supported free speech was to protect itself. Once it didn’t need to do that any more, it abandoned its protection, and it started censoring.

NOW OUT FROM JULIAN STOCKWIN: Sea of Treason.