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1 comment onAndrew Gelman: A quick rule of thumb is that when someone seems to be acting like a jerk, an economist will defend the behavior as being the essence of morality, but when someone seems to be doing something nice, an economist will raise the bar and argue that he’s not being nice at all.
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Too Far From Noise
As a ‘story game’ aficionado, I was hoping to like the well-reviewed and App Store-featured Far From Noise. It is very pretty and it touches on themes like depression and anxiety and despair that are not typically covered in pretty games. Sadly, I found the game overlong and repetitive. Believe me, it’s not that I don’t…
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Enjoyed the Rodin exhibition at The British Museum, aka “why we should get to keep the Elgin Marbles”. The concept of the intentional fragment was fascinating.
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The Fable of the Anti-Dragonist Thought Leadership
A riposte by Zarkonnen to Nick Bostrom’s The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant, a tedious story that spends 5000 words telling us that death from ageing is bad and we should try to prevent it: One day, an anti-dragonist on a speaking tour visited a town. When he arrived, most of the town’s inns were already…
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Hacker News is such a sausage fest that in a thread about dating apps, most of the women who appear are purely hypothetical.
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I look forward to spotting this Kings Cross tunnel in upcoming British sci-fi movies and TV shows.
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Sandra, Interrupted
I’ll be honest, I enjoyed parts of Gimlet’s new podcast drama Sandra more than I thought I would. Basically, a young woman gets a job ‘being’ Alexa, and hijink ensue. It’s cute! Yes, it’s muddled and a knock-off of The Circle, and yes, it really doesn’t make any sense at all, but it’s fun. Yet…
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A highly-upvoted Hacker News comment linked to a post I wrote twelve years ago on The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer: a book from Neal Stephenson’s Diamond Age … that is powered by a computer so advanced it’s almost magical, and it teaches children everything. It does this through a fully interactive story. It teaches you how to read,…
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Ninja’s Fortnite tournament, a fascinating mix of streaming, participation, $75 paid entry, and prizes ($2500 if you kill him, $2500 if you win a game), reminds me of what broadcasters like the BBC were trying to do in the 2000s. Back then, the tech and logistics for ‘massive’ games was too expensive, but it’s finally…
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Google Maps emailed me today saying my photos had reached 500,000 views. This one from Red n Hot Szechuan restaurant has 180,000 views, mostly because it’s shown when you pan around King’s Cross.
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