BlogHide Resteemsmittmattmutt (27)in postmodernism • 6 years agoWhat Is Postmodernism?The aim of this post is to explain, in hopefully intelligible terms, and by making reference to some of the central texts, what postmodernism is. I hope thereby to dispel two ideas that are found…mittmattmutt (27)in literature • 6 years ago“Generation X”, generation x, and millennialsPeople talk a lot about millennials as if they were some sort of brand new species, a wussy-feely generation faced with an unprecedentedly bad social lot: priced out of the housing market, doomed to…mittmattmutt (27)in politics • 6 years agoWhy (I Think) Trump Won't Be President At The End Of The YearAccording to the odds offered on British website betfair.com this morning there's a 7% chance that Trump won't be president at the end of the year. I think there's about a 15% chance that he won't…mittmattmutt (27)in altruism • 6 years agoAn Idea For Twitter-based PhilanthropyI’m very taken with this idea: that we can do one big good thing for the benefit of others by each doing one small good thing for the benefit of others. That if we collaborate we can, at little cost…mittmattmutt (27)in blockchain • 6 years agoWhy Left Wing People Should Like Blockchains (& An Intuitive Explanation Of What They Are)(originally published on medium, presupposing an audience who doesn't know what blockchains are and doesn't like them) It’s easy to criticize cryptocurrency. Fun, too. As to easy: it’s…mittmattmutt (27)in westworld • 7 years agoWestworld As Prediction(Draft, to be published in Ultimate Westworld and Philosophy. Do not cite, comments very welcome.) Call a machine which looks and acts exactly like a human being an android. Assuming that AI and…mittmattmutt (27)in tv • 7 years agoHow The Simpsons lead to the TV of today eschewing contemporary life for fantasyWe live on the internet. This is a genuinely new way of being — this morning, for instance, I did my job, talked with friends, attempted to flirt, and read some things which made me laugh (memes)…resteemedlukestokes (75)in simulation • 7 years agoIf We're in a Simulation, Could Studying Morality and A.I. Improve Your Life?(source) Last year, I wrote a post about My Simulation Theory Hypothesis. This past week I was considering a possible corollary and wanted to share it with you to get your thoughts. If you have…mittmattmutt (27)in philosophy • 7 years agoAnalytic Philosophy As PoetryIf anything at all comes to your mind when you think of analytic philosophy, it’s probably not the word ‘beauty’. Yet analytic philosophy has its own kind of beauty, akin to the beauty one finds in…mittmattmutt (27)in philosophy • 7 years agoAn Argument For The Existence Of The Devil, From The Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum MechanicsI know, the title sounds a bit kooky. But the argument I'm going to put forward is serious, building on work done by David Lewis, perhaps the most influential philosopher of the latter half of the…mittmattmutt (27)in blockchain • 7 years agoIntroducing a blockchain-inspired literary journal: decentreHi all, I thought I would both introduce myself and a project I've been working on that I think may be of interest to the steemit community. I am a Northern Irish writer and editor interested in…
