Day: June 7, 2010

Against Progress IFRL-Plague-BubonicBW

Against Progress

Will June 7, 2010

Provocative stuff from Robin Hanson: Social norms are slavery. Factory work is worse than farming is worse...

First-hired, last-fired IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-altesnational.building-site-with-willows

First-hired, last-fired

Erik Kain June 7, 2010

Ezra Klein makes a good point about the ‘first-hired, last-fired’ rule governing most public school systems. In...

Education and the architecture of choice IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-altesnational.gothic-church-on-a-rock-by-the-sea

Education and the architecture of choice

Erik Kain June 7, 2010

I want to talk about school choice again, because it’s one of those topics that I have...

Greetings from a Loyal Democrat IFRL-Mindiv-thom-holmes-556802-unsplash

Greetings from a Loyal Democrat

Lisa Kramer June 7, 2010

I’ve been invited to contribute here at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen, even though, as you can...

Your 2010 World Cup Primer IFRL-NaPP-Space-robot-2256814_1920

Your 2010 World Cup Primer

Will June 7, 2010

From The Unlikely Fan, a great series on the history of the World Cup and an entertaining...

InMD in reply to pillsy on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025True, but no death penalty in NY. I believe it's the feds pursuing it.
pillsy in reply to InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Pre-meditated murder is not, generally speaking, the kind of conduct one should engage in if one doe…
pillsy in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Sometimes actions have consequences, and inactions have consequences, and imaginary phantasms have c…
pillsy in reply to InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025As a bellwether, I think it's a bit less shocking than David Brooks calling for a general strike in…
Michael Cain on From Marginal Revolution: o3 and AGI, is April 16th AGI day?As for AGI, what does the software do when no one is bothering it with questions or tasks? Does it c…
InMD in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025One never wants to predict an outcome but I would think chances are high he gets it. Message being s…
Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Luigi Mangione has been indicted with something or other that makes him eligible for the death penal…
Saul Degraw in reply to Burt Likko on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025In response to the 4th Circuit, Pam Bondi promoted Garcia to being an MS13 gang leader. They have un…
CJColucci in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025I was there. They weren't.
Jaybird in reply to KenB on From Marginal Revolution: o3 and AGI, is April 16th AGI day?Back in 2023, I failed the Turing Test for a few minutes before figuring out that it was just auto-c…