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Revisiting the same poem every day is the antithesis of the attention economy; instead of scrolling along the surface, I’m diving deep beneath it.
My Secret Weapon Against the Attention Economy
Elliott Holt
In the positivist spirit, a philosopher or a scientist may replace “We have free will” with some determinate claim that might be supported or undermined by experimental evidence. But if we’re going to allow the experimental results, and the ambitious thesis that they support, to overthrow our everyday practices of praising, blaming, and punishing, the scientific explication had better be close enough to the everyday concept that underlies these practices. Otherwise, as Strawson—a leading critic of Carnap, and of logical positivism—objected at the time, we’re not solving a problem; we’re just changing the subject.
How Can Determinists Believe in Free Will? | the New Yorker
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The style is, after all, simply a reflection of big tech, and how it has constructed a world with users on one side and executives on the other.
Why Does Every Advert Look the Same? Blame Corporate Memphis
wired.co.uk
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