CARS AND THE TROLLEY PROBLEM
I suppose that most people are familiar with the trolley problem, an imagined scenario challenging someone with the choice between doing nothing and watching 5 people die and acting to save those five people, knowing that doing that will kill one person.
Read moreWHY WE DO WHAT WE DO
Fyodor Dostoevsky:
Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.
READING LIST REVISITED
Retirement opened up for me a wide swath of time to do what I want to do, and one of the big things I want to do is read.
Read moreA PERSPECTIVE ON THE MOMENT
It’s all over the news this week that the Colorado judges who released their ruling that Trump should not be on the ballot for this election are receiving death threats.
Read moreDEPRESSING UTOPIAS
Georges Perec:
All utopias are depressing because they leave no room for chance, for difference, for the “miscellaneous”.
WILL YOU JOIN ME AT THE ACTIVITYPUB?
On my about page, and perhaps in at least one other blog entry, I mentioned that I left Facebook behind a few years ago – the morning after the November 2016 election.
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