In What Sense Is AI Poetry Indistinguishable from Human Poetry? (Not the One You Think)
I “distinguished” 84 out of 87 poems. Inability to distinguish is likely reliable only temporarily and under lab conditions.
psychology
Don’t Measure the Quality of Your Life Using the Temperature of Your Nachos
A few years back, I read an anecdote somewhere on the web by a guy whose boss had won an all-expenses-paid trip to see an NFL game with amazing seats. The fo...
It’s the Commodification of Attention, Stupid
One of my Big Serious Goals for 2023 is to become more socially connected and make more really good friends in my new city, where I hope to be f...
Totally Enclosed Luminary: On Being Wrong Well
Last week, my hallway light burned out. As one does, I got up on my footstool in the dark, unscrewed the set screws carefully to avoid dropping the g...
Redesigning Motivation, or the Unexpected Benefit of Dishwashers
I bought a small countertop dishwasher for my apartment a few weeks ago. This is a box about eighteen inches on each side that fits on a counter or side ...
How to Slow Down
Reading and thinking lately, it’s becoming more and more clear to me that we all feel the world is moving too fast. I don’t pretend this feeling is u...
The Power of Names
I have found people have a tendency to discount or ignore the important role of having names for things in human thinking. This can lead to neglecting or...
The 2018 Concentration Project: A Review
Over the course of 2018, I’ve been undertaking an extended project which I’ve titled the 2018 Concentration Project. The goal was to improve my ability to co...
