Brandon Marcus

For Plato, the highest knowledge, knowledge of the good, is not so much discovered as it is remembered. As Socrates puts it in the Phaedo, “What we ca

In the field of Bayesian statistics, betting has served as a metaphor for the probabilistic calculations that we make naturally—a background, subconsc

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One of his more interesting sidelines was his critique of the ideas of copyright and patent. He believed attributing scientific discovery to a single

If AI capability depends on the social complexity of human language production—and if AI deployment systematically reduces that complexity through cog

Information and attention: A century in which the key to human history is not how the economy grew, but rather how humans learned to give attention to

Murdoch suggests that the ego makes it difficult to properly attend to one another. We often fail to see others adequately because the ego gets in the