Andrei Stoica

18th century coffee houses were places for knowledge-sharing. Men gathered around a long table at to talk business, and discuss news, politics and ideas. Coupled with the rapid spread of coffee houses around London, came the rapid spread of ideas. This was a changing time.

Every great law firm in New York moves without a sputter of protest into a glass-box office building with concrete slab floors and seven-foot-ten-inch-high concrete slab ceilings and plasterboard walls and pygmy corridors — and then hires a decorator and gives him a budget of hundreds of thousands of dollars to turn these mean cubes and grids into

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Further, as Zagzebski proposes, a crucial element in identifying moral exemplars is conscientious reflection: reasoning that melds the theoretical and the personal, considers the past and future, and takes place over a span of time and emotional states. Moral exemplars, she writes, are people we admire after this kind of reflection. And a key... See more

For all the hype that surrounds them, neural networks can’t reflect or explain anything deeper about cultural or societal phenomena any more than sharing a favorite character from The Office can predict long-term compatibility with a Tinder match. These systems can only instrumentalize taste; they turn any expression of self into a reductive data... See more