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Daily Archive for October 24th, 2017

As We Near the 100th Anniversary of the Start of Soviet Socialism

Posted in Classical Liberalism, If I Really Hated the Poor ... on Oct 24th, 2017

I have this really uneasy feeling these days. That uneasy feeling is coming from the people who are trying to convince me that one of the more serious existential threats we face is the possibility of dangerous, runaway AI. I get it, I do. We were having a discussion of Asimov’s i,Robot the other day. […]

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Straw Mann at it Again

Posted in Disingenuous, Environment on Oct 24th, 2017

Perhaps ironic that on a lecture on “Academic and Intellectual Freedom” we get the following: Throughout his lecture, Mann dissected the ways in which climate change is often portrayed as a debatable phenomenon. For instance, when climate change is a news show topic, producers will host a scientist alongside a “climate change contrarian,” even though a […]

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