Steve Waldman Writes About Stuff And Then I Write About That

Steve Waldman of interfluidity writes stuff in response to Tyler Cowen writing stuff.  I can recommend reading interfluidity without reservation.  Go, do so.  Come back in a few days.  I might even have a new post (in line with my current schedule of “a day or so after Lum posts). One bit I wanted to [...]

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Roger Ebert Maintains: Video Games Cannot Be Art

So sayeth the guy who talks about movies a lot: never can video games aspire to have, amidst their mighty pantheon of wondrous achievements, a single, solitary instance of a “Work of Art”. I disagree, and I think it comes down to definitions here.  Apparently, I have a broader definition of art than Ebert…or perhaps [...]

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Kotaku Inadvertently Provides Insight Into How Gamers View Religion

How people view and relate to the concept “religion” fascinates me, as was probably obvious from that discussion I had about Science as Religion with Jormundgard back in December.  Kotaku is apparently taking this week to discuss religion and video games, and has kicked it off with an article by Owen Good on religious depictions [...]

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A Bit More Conversation on the Church of Reason

Jormundgard replied to my (rather long) post about Conformity and Social Decision Making with a good point: I was a bit vague in my usage of certain terms, and that led to a lack of clarity as to what I was getting at with this whole “Church of Reason” bit.  I’d like to repost his [...]

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Analysis: Libertarian Utopia still possible even with stupid people a majority

Gevlon pessimistically concludes that a Libertarian “society” is impossible, generalizing from his experience with PuGs.  I disagree.  I think the flaw in his argument is that he equates a PuG to a Libertarian society: In the game such “society” would be the PuG-ing community. People who know that the other is also skilled band together [...]

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Demonstration

1. time = money :Axiom 2. money = root(evil) : Axiom 3. time^2 = evil :Follows from 1,2 4. acceleration = distance/time^2 :Axiom 5. acceleration = distance/evil : follows from 3,4 For consideration: does physics provide us answers for ethical dilemmas, or merely indicate that evil is an inescapable facet of existence?

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