religion
(The kind that’s made of ideas, not the kind that outgrabes…) So, Mark Atwood sent me a link to this: Who worships an evil god? Someone has realized that the lovecraftian gods are effective as myth because they are basically the eikones of the human species, hiding in plain
freedom of speech
In today’s news, it turns out MSNBC’s legal correspondent, Ari Melber, has proposed treating “fake news”, or more technically “disprovable media claims” as a species of fraud along the same lines as fraudulent advertising – and therefore something the FTC can protect the public from. Long-time readers may notice
worldbuilding
So, in things to think about, let’s talk about intellectual integrity. Or, more specifically, let’s talk about a citation I’m taking from Paean to SMAC (Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri)’s discussion of the Intellectual Integrity technology, and specifically this: That this is tied to a technology