I guess every city park is a precursor to Disneyland, including Hyde Park in London, Bois de Boulogne in Paris, Shinjuku Gyoen in Tokyo, Parque Ibirapuera in Sao Paulo. What makes Prospect Park different is that it was built on top of a major battlefield.
Litkicks is 32 years old! It’s been a journey. Lately we’re busy doing a couple of excellent podcasts.
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An illustration combining Plato’s Cave, Schrödinger’s Cat, a Brain in a Jar, the Trolley Problem.
Understanding LLMs is a project for philosophy, psychology and arts. The discovery of neural networks and predictive transformers is rapidly changing the landscape in every field of science and humanities and philosophical inquiry: epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, aesthetics, religious studies, sociology, political science.
Suddenly I realize I have a new favorite writer. It’s not like I ever expect to suddenly have a new favorite anything.
Genocide is happening again in more than one region of planet earth today. We talk about this on the latest World BEYOND War podcast episode …
How is the peace movement changing? How is our vision of the future changing? Online communities offer a distinctive, robust and appealing model for human coexistence that people intuitively and immediately understand.
I threw the I Ching for America the other day. This is a good spiritual practice when you come to a moment in your life when things are changing fast and you want to get a grip on what’s happening.
“Out demons out!” I don’t know why it’s feels so cathartic to me every time I listen to the recording on the 1968 Fugs album “Tenderness Junction” of a historic event a year before, the exorcism and attempted levitation of the Pentagon in USA’s capital city by a determined group of antiwar protestors …
A new episode of “Lost Music: Exploring Literary Opera” just dropped! It’s about Die Zauberflote by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Emanuel Schikaneder
I started publishing my memoir here on Litkicks 15 years ago. I wrote one new chapter a week for 53 weeks, covering the years 1993
