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Differences between crackdowns on dissent now and in the early Cold War period
2026-05-23
First, the similarities: 1. Government actors are directly threatening both private citizens and government employees to suppress dissenting speech. 2. The attacks on free expression are notable but they’re still very rare. Most people in this country can still say …
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The “humans are imperfect reporters too” defense for ascribing little thoughts to machines
2026-05-23
This is Jessica. In my last post about the tension between the “necessity” that we ascribe human folk psychological concepts like thinking and reasoning to machines and the problems that arise when we overinterpret them, I briefly mentioned a defense …
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