Immersed in my AI project, I have time for one sentence: Pausing the (unfortunately undeclared) war against Iran before total destruction of the Iranian regime is like pausing a course of antibiotics before completion.
In my study of artificial intelligence, I have recently learned of an important contemporary philosopher and cognitive scientist who should be of particular interest to students of Ayn Rand’s theory of concepts. Although the published work of Ayn Rand predates his published work (and almost all of the voluminous other work that he cites), Peter […]
In 2009, I wrote, The longer America delays, the stronger Iran and its allies grow, and the more Americans will be murdered by this axis of evil. Even a rat fights when cornered. But a man of reason and courage does not wait until his loved ones have been murdered and his own survival hangs […]
In 2003, I wrote, America’s problem with Islamic fundamentalists began when Americans, failing to defend their rational self-interest, put the fruits of rationality in the hands of the irrational by letting Islamic savages nationalize Western oil properties in the Middle East. For centuries, Middle East Muslims had been killing each other, but were not a […]
Between the cartoon shows I watched on Saturday mornings as a young boy was a show starring cowboy Roy Rogers. What I recall most about the show—more than Roy and his wife Dale Evans singing “Happy trails to you, until we meet again …” and his horse Trigger—was Roy having gunfights with the bad guys. […]
*perhaps with help from my theory of propositions. This post links to two astonishing chats with ChatGPT. 1. ChatGPT’s Philosophical Detection of Objectivist EpistemologyModel version: ChatGPT 4ohttps://chatgpt.com/share/687c3047-2bcc-800b-bda8-28916181fde4 In this chat, the first two prompts and responses are of mild interest, but my third prompt was, How do you relate a concept to the concrete […]
By far the best commentary I have read on the murder of Iryna Zarutska and the assassination of Charlie Kirk is this essay by C. Bradley Thompson: Nihilism and the Crisis of the West. In contrast, this post by me is a mere footnote. As I wrote in 2022, Philosophically, the American Left endorses the […]
Excerpted from Apology by Plato, translated by Benjamin Jowett. Someone will say: And are you not ashamed, Socrates, of a course of life which is likely to bring you to an untimely end? To him I may fairly answer: There you are mistaken: a man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living […]
I celebrate Atlas Shrugged Day (September 2) each year by opening to a random page of Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, and reading a passage. Here is what I found today, in Part II, Chapter IV (“The Sanction Of The Victim”): “I think you should abandon the illusion of your own perfection, which you know full well to be an […]
There are important things in life that I have achieved, and there are important things in life that I may never achieve. “Regrets, I’ve had a few.” But I have achieved the most important thing to me, the thing I have spent more of my life on than anything else. I have achieved blissful breathing […]