Open Thread

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Paris Hilton

Free will isn’t a con­cept (un­less you mean de­ter­minism)

Bay Area Bayesi­ans Unite!

God is irrelevant

Why aren’t our prop­erty rights over one an­other more trans­fer­able?

Mar­kets are a kind of elec­tro­chem­i­cal cell

Is out­do­ing mon­keys while imag­in­ing free will the only way you can feel like a man?

Cor­po­rate ecology

A way to be more open minded (an ex­per­i­men­tal thought)

Prob­a­bil­ity is the oil of rationalisation

Who needs democ­racy, free speech and all that rub­bish when you can pre­scribe the val­ues of your cit­i­zens?

Draw­ing lines and tigers

Some half-se­ri­ous, half-formed thoughts on ex­ist­ing and so on

So much for the fac­tual pub­lic de­bate that democ­ra­cies com­pletely fail to be built on