New conversation with the brilliant David Kipping focusing on the search for aliens, the Fermi paradox, the simulation argument, anthropic reasoning, the role of AI in science, whether "AGI" or “superintelligence” are imminent, and much more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUQ4...
As @danwphilosophy.bsky.social said www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
New guest post at 'Conspicuous Cognition' by the excellent Oxford Professor James Tilley. Very interesting findings here.
www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/how-brexit...
In a new guest post at Conspicuous Cognition, Tibor Rutar reviews what the evidence actually says about the relationship between immigration and crime - and explains why it doesn't support simplistic culture war narratives. www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/in-europe-...
This is a guest post by James Tilley, a Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford, about his excellent new book with Sara Hobolt, Tribal Politics: How Brexit Divided Britain.
British politics is resembling the rest of Europe:
• Multi-party competition has replaced two-party dominance
• Challengers are on the rise, esp. the populist right
• Political realignment centres on identity politics (incl Brexit)
But FPTP is poorly suited to this fragmentation
I don't get why a bunch of people on BlueSky instantly concluded this assassination attempt was fake? I mean, like, I guess it could be, wouldn't be the strangest thing to have happened ever. But probably not, surely? What would even be the point of that? Just - why the weird conspiracy brain stuff?
