Europe follows Australia in clean feed! 26 Apr 2010 Of course, we’re copying China, Iran, Burma and other democratic beacons… This video should be done in an Australian version: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkmcupFx3FQ&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] Philosophy
Creationism and Intelligent Design Paper withdrawn from Synthese 30 Apr 2011 Massimo Pigliucci, head of the Philosophy Program at City University of New York, and Raphael Scholl from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bern, have withdrawn a paper from Synthese. Here, with their permission, is the text of the letter they sent to the editors in chief: To… Read More
Philosophy What caused Steve Jobs’ death 6 Oct 20118 Oct 2011 Almost as soon as Jobs’ death was announced, a post went up on Twitter: Read More
Humor Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality 22 Aug 2010 Link Petunia married a professor, and Harry grew up reading science and science fiction. Then came the Hogwarts letter… I enjoy the hell out of this series of fanfic. I want to read the entire seven volumes. Now! The premise is that Harry is actually rational and skeptical. Read More
The sad part is, even though it’s clearly satire, I’m not sure it really is satire. The government has probably looked at every line in this and thought “hey, this is actually a good idea, in line with our interests”. Perhaps we could name the new organization the Ministry of Internet Trust—Minitrue for short.
Yuck. That’s a terrible video. Parts of it are obviously satirical, while other parts don’t sound satirical at all, resulting in an incoherent message. It is also inappropriate to deliver satire of an important social issue in such a cheerfully deadpan voice and to play critical-faculty-dulling music in the background.
Parts are obviously satirical, while other parts don’t sound satirical at all? Gad! These guys are as incompetent as Mark Twain.