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Peg Tittle
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Apr 21 2026
some funny bits from Tim Dorsey’s The Maltese Iguana
“I don’t need to read anything to know what I’m talking about!” / “In one sentence you’ve just summed up everything wrong wtih our country today!” p152 “A few short years ago, we could look at a drinking glass and agree it was filled to the midpoint with water, then argue about what it meant. But today? …
Apr 12 2026
Suppose two married women …
Suppose two married women get jobs outside the home at the same time, forcing their husbands to hire someone to do the cooking, cleaning, and childcare. Ten hours/day, 5 days/week, at $20/hr. It’s a lot to afford, but the men have so-called ‘breadwinner’ salaries. Suppose it turns out that Emma is hired by Alyssa’s husband …
Apr 02 2026
Who’s ethically responsible for an AI’s behavior?
Excellent question. One I’ve thought about (as a philosopher and an ex-ethics consultant) and raised here. One might suggest that an AI is like a gun, and ‘we’ve’ always argued that those who create guns and bombs should not be held responsible for how they’re used. Not sure about that, but regardless, an important difference …
Apr 01 2026
Suppose by some biochemical quirk …
Suppose by some biochemical quirk, the hormones we’ve been feeding cows inhibits testosterone in humans, so the more meat men eat, the weaker they become. Suppose that within a year, males lost their 30% physical strength advantage over women. What would happen?
Mar 23 2026
Naomi Alderman’s The Power meets Monty Python’s “Hell’s Grannies”
A man struts and huffs and puffs and expands like a blowfish, but all the old women close their eyes. Deny him the female gaze. Refuse to be a witness to his Almighty Greatness, let alone a cheerleader. And not only does he deflate, he disappears in a puff of, well, nothingness. Existential nothingness. Beauvoir …
Mar 08 2026
The blink. This is perfect.
“She blinks at me. … The blink isn’t confusion. It’s not processing. It’s a screensaver. It’s her brain going into standby mode because the incoming information doesn’t match the preset programming.” from a repost with no author name
Mar 08 2026
“… these guys have no idea how stupid they look.”
“The camera closes in on two cops standing beside the tank, each with an assault rifle. Both weigh over three hundred pounds. One is wearing a uniform of green-and-gray camouflage, as if he were hunting deer in the woods. The other is wearing a uniform in brown-and-beige camouflage, as if he were hunting insurgents in …
Mar 03 2026
Claude’s Constitution
https://www.anthropic.com/constitution I’m half way through and just can’t … To this point, I have two questions: 1. Have any of the authors prepared a comparable constitution for their own child/ren? If not, why not? If so, could I read it? 2. Have any of the authors taken just ONE philosophy course in Ethics?
Mar 02 2026
Non-Experts are Training AI
https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology The really scarey thing is that those who are training AI have themselves no training in training. No Education degree. Let alone a Psychology degree and a Philosophy degree. And they’re juggling concepts like autonomy and morality? WTF?! And considering the range of applications (unlimited), it’s alarming that they have no Humanities knowledge. Nor …
Mar 02 2026
What if the typical worker’s pay had risen like CEO’s pay?
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-if-the-typical-workers-pay-had
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