Category Archives: Education

A Tale Of Two Enlightenments

I often wonder if there would have been a Marx if there hadn’t been a Rousseau.

[Update a few minutes later]

This was actually the previous part:

Coding And AI

An interesting X thread of diverse experiences:

My own experience is that it can be useful in providing first drafts for things like business plans, requirements documents, etc., but I have to edit, and many wouldn’t have the knowledge to do it properly or recognize issues. It can be a multiplier of both good and bad.

[Update a while ago]

The wages of AI: Professor bans take-home exams after rampant cheating.

What would terrify me about this if I were a student again would be having to go back to handwriting papers and essays. If I didn’t have a keyboard, I’d have hardly written anything in my life.

Trump’s Anti-Communist Manifesto

It was nice to see a president finally stand up to them.

…the record is pretty suggestive for Mamdani and Avila Chevalier. But it’s not that way for the other DSA candidates who won recently — Claire Valdez, Melat Kiros, Janeese Lewis-George, and others. On the other hand, all of them are members of the Democratic Socialists of America, and the word “socialist” has always been a key part of the vocabulary of communism, in the 20th century and today. So one could say that Trump’s accusation is reasonably true for some of the DSA comrades who have defeated Democratic candidates and at least adjacent to the beliefs of some others. In other words, it’s close enough for a political campaign.”

Most people forget, or never knew, what the second “S” in USSR stood for.

[Update a while later]

Yes. Socialists should be disqualified for public office for simply being socialists.

I noted on X right after Chevalier’s election that it was hard to see how she could honestly take the oath of office.

And as someone (von Mises? Hayek?) once noted, if socialists understood economics, they wouldn’t be socialists.