This year some friends and I have been doing a "Hegel Year" reading group. My interest in Hegel was spurred by reading and discussing the . Several writer...| Bjorn's Garden of Hypertext 🪴
I have a hunch that one of the more useful applications of LLMs in the longer term will be transforming unstructured prose into structured data with the guid...| Bjorn's Garden of Hypertext 🪴
Many economists that the tariffs mooted by the new U.S. administration are likely to decrease economic growth relative to a scenario without additional tari...| Bjorn's Garden of Hypertext 🪴
If you had a standard American education more than a few decades ago, your view of Native American societies before the arrival of European colonists is likely inaccurate. There were many more Native Americans, in more dense settlements, than you were taught. They consciously transformed the landscapes in which they lived on a vast scale, contrary to the still popular romantic image of bands of meek people dwelling lightly upon the earth. And they did so over a very long period of time, with ...| Bjorn's Garden of Hypertext
Have you heard of the "socialist calculation debate"? There are many brief essays intended to introduce a general audience to it, often expressly written to vindicate the doctrines of one political tendency or another. If you read a few of these, you will quickly notice they tend to repeat one of three stories about the debate:| Bjorn's Garden of Hypertext
, by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski, is the latest short text on a political theme to issue from and [Jacobin Magazine](https://jacobinmag.com/)'s j...| Bjorn's Garden of Hypertext
I have been a skeptic of some of the more breathless claims made for Generative AI since at least October 2023, when I participated in . Specifically, I hav...| Bjorn's Garden of Hypertext