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Iliad (YC W23) is building a creative crutch for rapidly generating game assets. Unoriginal designers and artists who lack the powers of inspiration and invention can use it to cre…

Why doesn't Iowa fall off the map?

Pynchon wrote several short stories in highschool in the first person. See Voice of the Hamster ( http://genius.com/Thomas-pynchon-voice-of-the-hamster-annota... ). I find the simi…

In that case, aren't you, in effect, choosing for me the set of choices available to me for selection, based upon a preconceived notion of "quality"? The Underground Man goes on to…

In Notes from Underground, Dostoevsky nailed the reason computers and science and algorithms will never be able to replicate humanity or predict the actions of man, when he wrote: …

I think this is getting at one of the root absurdities of human existence in general: the desire to be understood, to socially connect, and the overwhelming truth that real underst…

Hooman Majd's book, The Ayatollah Begs to Differ, is pretty interesting, especially as it relates to ta'arof at the international level. He argues that many of the seemingly bizarr…

Araji was the source of the NYT article; what I find interesting is the rhetorical trouncing dispensed by Hitchens. Although the essay was published in 2005 and Hitchens died in 20…

Bryan R. Wilson, "The Persistence of Sects", Diskus, Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions, Vol 1, No. 2, 1993