A Million Tiny Pieces: Descent into Epistemological Crisis
The 77 percent was gone, and it was not coming back, and no exhortation about trusting the experts could possibly retrieve it, because the people had not made an error. They had learned.
Category: Technology
Childhood Vaccines: A Case Study in Epistemological Dissolution
This is part of a series of essays that examine the current epistemological crisis. PART I: The Fauci Affair and Our Epistemological CrisisPART II: A
The Long Dissolution
A few did not put it aside, and from 1962 forward there existed in America a small population of people who had understood something the majority had declined to understand — and who would be proved right again, and again, and again, for sixty years, all the while being called cranks the entire time.
A Theory of Epistemological Stasis and Crisis
A culture that has lost its courts is easy to name and hard to picture, so before going further it is worth slowing down and laying out the machinery — what the courts actually are, what they sit on top of, and what exactly gives way when they fall.
AI Art Is Not the Problem—It’s Our Taste
Earlier this month, an AI-generated song climbed all the way to the top of the country charts. Some were amazed by this milestone, which seemed
Flipping the Script: How John Lasseter Revolutionized Media
The first step in solving the problem is to define the problem, and, to do that, sometimes we have to flip the script.
Frequency Hopping: How Hedy Lamarr Used Analogy to Spark a New Technology
Hedy Lamarr was never one for conventions. As a young actress in the 1930s, she flouted the Hollywood social scene. Instead, she filled her free