#whoa deep

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Really when you think about it, a dollar is anything a bank will accept as a dollar

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So is it possible for the Supreme Court or whatever final legal appeals authority decides a case to give an incorrect result on a matter of law?

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In the chinese room turing test there’s a person behind a door, and when you give them some code they manually calculate the program with pen and paper and return the results to you.  Are they a computer?

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If the human brain isn’t a computer, does that mean it can solve computationally intractable problems?

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Friend a man on facebook 40 years. Share his posts, like his articles. Comment on every subject. Then one day follow his twitter account, and on that day, you will finally meet the man.

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The irony of our vibrant and necessary police reform movement is that it’s happening simultaneously to everyone becoming a cop. I mean…

The idea of the panopticon is one of the most tired and clichéd bits of theory talk you’ll find, one that reliably makes its way into every undergraduate paper and TV recap. It’s also wrong. See, the panopticon says we all get watched all the time, but there’s still a division between the guards and the prisoners. There’s still people who do the watching separate from the watched. And that’s not real life. No, in real life we’re all guards and prisoners at the same time. We are all informants on each other. Contemporary political culture is an autoimmune disorder. Do you enjoy living like this? Are you not exhausted? Don’t you want to break out? Or are you happy here, content to judge and judge and judge and never stop judging? Then congrats. Welcome to the nation of finks, planet of cops. Enjoy. Enjoy. Enjoy.