Andy Schmookler
Sports Writer at The Daily Progress
Articles
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1 week ago |
nvdaily.com | Andy Schmookler
Most of the time, when I think about the history of cultural systems, what strikes me is what I call “the persistence of culture” — meaning how much it continues to be what it was, even though the humans carrying the culture get replaced with the turnover of generations.
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2 weeks ago |
nvdaily.com | Andy Schmookler
In recent weeks, there have been two nations that conducted elections, and the outcome in each made the same statement: “We [the people of Canada and Australia] are turning around because the more Liberal candidate looks more capable of dealing with the threat posed by Donald Trump.”These are two of the earth’s most decent nations, and anyone who respects our Founder’s appeal to “the decent opinion of humankind” is obligated to ponder the significance of these dramatic developments.
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3 weeks ago |
nvdaily.com | Andy Schmookler
Andy (Human) to AL (an AI)You know, of course, that there's a lot of talk about the PROBLEM AI is causing educators. They give the students an assignment, the students hand in the essays they were assigned to write, and the educators don't know whether the student did anything more than tell some AI what they needed and PRESTO! (or Abracadabra!) the student has a cogent essay which they can hand in without having learned much of anything. OK, that's the problem.
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1 month ago |
nvdaily.com | Andy Schmookler
People are not all going to see things the same way. Our backgrounds are different. Our values are not identical. We each have our own psychological structures. People will believe different things, want different things. How are we going to deal with the inevitable disagreements? One thing that history shows us is that much of the time, in a lot of places, certain basic articles of belief and feelings of allegiance have been obligatory.
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1 month ago |
nvdaily.com | Andy Schmookler
One can observe how different forces — representing distinct forms of Brokenness — naturally gravitate toward each other and readily make common cause.
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