"Selected works" is currently ironic

Oddly enough, a couple of days ago, in the middle of Absolution, I thought to myself that I don't care to learn the mysteries of Area X, I care to learn about the characters who experience it.

Initially read that as "concern barbeque". Might be a neat event.

It's literally the role of a LLM

Fox's Incorrectness Theorem

When has the US had a boring president?

I like maybe a paragraph and then building it in play. The entire 13th Age setting is like that.

It's certainly giving Shredder vibes

Aren't you the guy that literally wants to go around showing his penis to strangers?

We don't have to bring up teleology to find biological errors in Coyne's account. I, too, used to advocate not using "design" in the context of academic discussions of evolution, but I was given good arguments as to why it fits --without being teleological.

The problem is people who don't want to be careful. If we stick to "function" there will be people who bring up that a specific function shaped the evolutionary history of a trait (true), and therefore that's what the trait should be used for (false).

Yeah, Coyne is a perfect example of people who engage in public atheism for the purposes of bullying. The bullying becomes central and analysis becomes used only for that purpose.

Sure, in some contexts, that's the meaning. It's certainly the meaning that many creationists have pushed. It's one of the reasons I don't like the use of the word. "Design" is a decent word among those who understand the evolutionary subtleties, ones that significantly limit teleology.

Seems totally right. There is more imagination than imaging in Joyce's work.

Did you actually see what I was replying to?

That's a big map. Usually, a map has a scale other than 1:1.

Truly a beautiful article.

Historically, thousands of Republicans have claimed that the 2nd Amendment is an enforcement mechanism for just such an occasion. Where are their voices now?