{"id":5383,"date":"2019-04-05T21:24:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T05:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=5383"},"modified":"2019-04-08T13:36:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T21:36:04","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-197","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2019\/04\/05\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-197","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 197"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4396\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=1200%2C1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions. If you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way.<\/p>\n<h3>Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n<ol class=\"simple-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/edwardfeser.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/artificial-intelligence-and-magical.html\">Arti\u00adfi\u00adcial Intel\u00adli\u00adgence and Mag\u00adi\u00adcal Think\u00ading<\/a> (Ed Fes\u00ader, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cBuild\u00ading a com\u00adput\u00ader is pre\u00adcise\u00adly anal\u00ado\u00adgous to putting togeth\u00ader a bit of mag\u00adi\u00adcal sleight of hand. It is a clever exer\u00adcise in sim\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion, noth\u00ading more. And the <em>con\u00advinc\u00ading\u00adness <\/em>of the sim\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion is as com\u00adplete\u00adly irrel\u00ade\u00advant in the one case as it is in the oth\u00ader. Say\u00ading \u2018Gee, AI pro\u00adgrams can do such amaz\u00ading things. Maybe it real\u00adly <em>is <\/em>intel\u00adli\u00adgence!\u2019 is like say\u00ading \u2018Gee, Penn and Teller do such amaz\u00ading things. Maybe it real\u00adly <em>is <\/em>mag\u00adic!\u2019\u201d Fes\u00ader is one of my favorite philoso\u00adphers.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stanforddaily.com\/2019\/04\/05\/revealing-religion-understanding-faith-at-stanford\/\">Reveal\u00ading reli\u00adgion: Under\u00adstand\u00ading faith at Stan\u00adford<\/a> (Meli\u00adna Walling, Stan\u00adford Dai\u00adly): \u201cIt\u2019s my first day at Stan\u00adford: a whirl\u00adwind of unpacked suit\u00adcas\u00ades, reshuf\u00adfled note\u00adbooks and crum\u00adpled bed\u00adding. My room\u00admate and I meet each oth\u00ader for the first time and choose our beds. Our par\u00adents all shake hands. Then, in the blink of an eye, we\u2019re alone for the first time. I take a deep breath and ask my room\u00admate the ques\u00adtion I\u2019ve been wait\u00ading to ask: Are you com\u00adfort\u00adable if I pray?\u201d Two Chi Alphans are inter\u00adviewed in this arti\u00adcle, and I am very pleased with how they han\u00addled them\u00adselves. Good job, Con\u00adnor &amp; Nao\u00admi!\n<ul>\n<li>While we\u2019re talk\u00ading about Stan\u00adford: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/news\/11735298\/how-stanfords-desire-for-a-booze-free-town-gave-birth-to-palo-alto\">How Stan\u00adford\u2019s Desire for a Booze-Free Town Gave Birth to Palo Alto<\/a> (Ryan Levi, KQED): \u201cThis was dur\u00ading the heart of the Tem\u00adper\u00adance Move\u00adment, and the Stan\u00adfords knew that asso\u00adci\u00adat\u00ading their school with an alco\u00adhol-free town would be entic\u00ading to many of the par\u00adents of prospec\u00adtive stu\u00addents.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2019\/04\/what-college-admissions-scandal-reveals\/586468\/\">They Had It Com\u00ading<\/a> (Caitlin Flana\u00adgan, The Atlantic): \u201cSweet Christ, vin\u00addi\u00adca\u00adtion! How long has it been? Years? No, decades. If hope is the thing with feath\u00aders, I was a plucked bird. Long ago, I sur\u00adren\u00addered myself to the fact that the hor\u00adri\u00adble, hor\u00adri\u00adble pri\u00advate-school par\u00adents of Los Ange\u00adles would get away with their nas\u00adti\u00adness for\u00adev\u00ader. But even before the molt\u00ading, nev\u00ader in my wildest imag\u00adin\u00adings had I dared to dream that the arc of the moral uni\u00adverse could describe a 90-degree angle and smite down mine ene\u00admies with such a ham\u00admer fist of fire and fury that even I have had a moment of think\u00ading, <em>Could this be a bit too much?<\/em>\u201d This is a wild ride of a read about the col\u00adlege admis\u00adsions scan\u00addal.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/quillette.com\/2019\/03\/29\/denying-the-neuroscience-of-sex-differences\/\">Deny\u00ading the Neu\u00adro\u00adscience of Sex Dif\u00adfer\u00adences<\/a> (Lar\u00adry Cahill, Quil\u00adlette): \u201cNo one seems to have a prob\u00adlem accept\u00ading that, on aver\u00adage, male and female bod\u00adies dif\u00adfer in many, many ways. Why is it sur\u00adpris\u00ading or unac\u00adcept\u00adable that this is true for the part of our body that we call \u2018brain\u2019?\u201d Cahill is a neu\u00adro\u00adsci\u00aden\u00adtist at UC Irvine.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2019\/3\/22\/18259865\/great-awokening-white-liberals-race-polling-trump-2020\">The Great Awok\u00aden\u00ading<\/a> (Matt Ygle\u00adsias, Vox): \u201cIn the past five years, white lib\u00ader\u00adals have moved so far to the left on ques\u00adtions of race and racism that they are now, on these issues, to the left of even the typ\u00adi\u00adcal black vot\u00ader. This change amounts to a \u2018Great Awok\u00aden\u00ading\u2019 \u2014 com\u00adpa\u00adra\u00adble in some ways to the enor\u00admous reli\u00adgious foment in the white North in the years before the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Civ\u00adil War.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>Relat\u00aded: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2019\/04\/progressivism-making-democrats\/586372\/\">The Demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adic Par\u00adty Is Rad\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adiz\u00ading<\/a> (Peter Wehn\u00ader, The Atlantic): \u201cPro\u00adgres\u00adsivism is wreck\u00ading the Demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adic Par\u00adty even as crude pop\u00adulism and eth\u00adnic nation\u00adal\u00adism have (for now) wrecked the Repub\u00adli\u00adcan Par\u00adty. Both are sal\u00advage\u00adable and both are worth sav\u00ading, but that will require indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adals who have iden\u00adti\u00adfied with each par\u00adty to fight to reclaim them; to show wis\u00addom, decen\u00adcy, and courage in an age of extrem\u00adism and intem\u00adper\u00adance.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The author of the first piece, Ygle\u00adsias, is a pro\u00adgres\u00adsive. The author of the sec\u00adond arti\u00adcle, Wehn\u00ader, is a con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive. The two arti\u00adcles read togeth\u00ader give an inter\u00adest\u00ading take on the cur\u00adrent state of the Demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adic par\u00adty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jewishreviewofbooks.com\/articles\/5203\/harold-bloom-anti-inkling\/\">Harold Bloom: Anti-Inkling?<\/a> (Michael Wine\u00adgrad, Jew\u00adish Review of Books): \u201cAccord\u00ading to Bloom\u2019s famous the\u00ado\u00adry of the \u2018anx\u00adi\u00adety of influ\u00adence,\u2019 we don\u2019t get to choose our influ\u00adences. More\u00adover, a writer\u2019s explic\u00adit des\u00adig\u00adna\u00adtion of a major influ\u00adence is usu\u00adal\u00adly a ruse, intend\u00aded to hide (most\u00adly from him\u00adself) the real influ\u00adence at work.\u2026. it starts to look as if it was actu\u00adal\u00adly the Inklings, and espe\u00adcial\u00adly Lewis, who got under Bloom\u2019s skin.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/30\/us\/politics\/pompeo-christian-policy.html\">The Rap\u00adture and the Real World: Mike Pom\u00adpeo Blends Beliefs and Pol\u00adi\u00adcy<\/a> (Edward Wong, New York Times): \u201c\u2026no sec\u00adre\u00adtary of state in recent decades has been as open and fer\u00advent as Mr. Pom\u00adpeo about dis\u00adcussing Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty and for\u00adeign pol\u00adi\u00adcy in the same breath. That has increas\u00ading\u00adly raised ques\u00adtions about the extent to which evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal beliefs are influ\u00adenc\u00ading Amer\u00adi\u00adcan diplo\u00adma\u00adcy.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Less Serious Things Which Also Interested\/Amused Glen<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"simple-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/snake\">A Talk\u00ading Snake<\/a> (SMBC) \u2014 the the\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy is not great but it is amus\u00ading<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gavinortlund\/status\/1113838019327344641\">What Tru\u00adly Brings Chris\u00adtians Togeth\u00ader<\/a> (Gavin Ortlund, Twit\u00adter)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/new-evidence-suggests-king-david-actually-saw-bathsheba-wearing-leggings-as-pants\">New Evi\u00addence Sug\u00adgests King David Actu\u00adal\u00adly Saw Bathshe\u00adba Wear\u00ading Leg\u00adgings As Pants<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee): shared with me by a friend who cor\u00adrect\u00adly thought I would find it amus\u00ading.\n<ul>\n<li>Relat\u00aded: an actu\u00adal, non-humor opin\u00adion piece <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/human-interest\/2019\/03\/christian-leggings-church-notre-dame-debate.html\">In Chris\u00adt\u00adian Cir\u00adcles, the Debate Over Leg\u00adgings and Female Butts Has Been Rag\u00ading With Spe\u00adcial Urgency<\/a> (Ruth Gra\u00adham, Slate): \u201cHere\u2019s a fact about leg\u00adgings in 2019: The only thing peo\u00adple like more than wear\u00ading leg\u00adgings is get\u00adting mad about leg\u00adgings. In the sphere of pub\u00adlic debate, leg\u00adgings have become the sym\u00adbol of slip\u00adping stan\u00addards, immod\u00adesty, and The Prob\u00adlem With Young Peo\u00adple Today.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/273455\/greatest-shooter-in-nba-history-played-with-blurry-vision.html\">\u2018Great\u00adest Shoot\u00ader in NBA His\u00adto\u00adry\u2019 Played With Blur\u00adry Vision<\/a> (News\u00ader): this is a real news sto\u00adry, not satire. Steph Cur\u00adry has bad eye\u00adsight and only just recent\u00adly got con\u00adtacts. That\u2019s amaz\u00ading.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Things Glen Found Interesting A While Ago<\/h3>\n<p>Every week I\u2019ll high\u00adlight an old\u00ader link still worth your con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion. This week we have <a href=\"https:\/\/slatestarcodex.com\/2017\/03\/16\/book-review-seeing-like-a-state\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Book Review: See\u00ading Like A State<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Scott Alexan\u00adder, Slate Star Codex): \u201cPeas\u00adants didn\u2019t like per\u00adma\u00adnent sur\u00adnames. Their own sys\u00adtem was quite rea\u00adson\u00adable for them: John the bak\u00ader was John Bak\u00ader, John the black\u00adsmith was John Smith, John who lived under the hill was John Under\u00adhill, John who was real\u00adly short was John Short. The same per\u00adson might be John Smith and John Under\u00adhill in dif\u00adfer\u00adent con\u00adtexts, where his sta\u00adtus as a black\u00adsmith or place of ori\u00adgin was more impor\u00adtant. But the gov\u00adern\u00adment insist\u00aded on giv\u00ading every\u00adone a sin\u00adgle per\u00adma\u00adnent name, unique for the vil\u00adlage, and track\u00ading who was in the same fam\u00adi\u00adly as whom. Resis\u00adtance was intense.\u201d This is long and amaz\u00ading. (first shared in <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2017\/04\/07\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-95\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vol\u00adume 95<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Why Do You Send This Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar pro\u00adduced shrewd war\u00adriors \u201cwho under\u00adstood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). In a sim\u00adi\u00adlar way, we need to become wise peo\u00adple whose faith inter\u00adacts with the world. I pray this email gives you greater insight, so that you may con\u00adtin\u00adue the tra\u00addi\u00adtion of Issachar.<\/p>\n<h3><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Chi Alpha is not a par\u00adti\u00adsan orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion. To para\u00adphrase anoth\u00ader min\u00adis\u00adter: we are not about the donkey\u2019s agen\u00adda and we are not about the elephant\u2019s agen\u00adda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u2019s agen\u00adda. Hav\u00ading said that, I read wide\u00adly (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\">the ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal Tur\u00ading test<\/a> and in part because I do not believe I can fair\u00adly say \u201cI agree\u201d or \u201cI dis\u00adagree\u201d until I can say \u201cI under\u00adstand\u201d) and may at times share arti\u00adcles that have a strong par\u00adti\u00adsan bias sim\u00adply because I find the arti\u00adcle stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with every\u00adthing an author says in an arti\u00adcle I men\u00adtion, much less things the author has said in oth\u00ader arti\u00adcles (although if I strong\u00adly dis\u00adagree with some\u00adthing in the arti\u00adcle I\u2019ll usu\u00adal\u00adly men\u00adtion it). And to the extent you can dis\u00adcern my opin\u00adions, please under\u00adstand that they are my own and not nec\u00ades\u00adsar\u00adi\u00adly those of Chi Alpha or any oth\u00ader orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion I may be per\u00adceived to rep\u00adre\u00adsent.<\/p>\n<p>Also, remem\u00adber that I\u2019m not report\u00ading news \u2014 I\u2019m giv\u00ading you a selec\u00adtion of things I found inter\u00adest\u00ading. There\u2019s a lot hap\u00adpen\u00ading in the world that\u2019s not mak\u00ading an appear\u00adance here because I haven\u2019t found stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading arti\u00adcles writ\u00adten about it.<\/p>\n<p>If this was for\u00adward\u00aded to you and you want to receive future emails, sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/\">here<\/a>. You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links\">view the archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions. If you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way. Things Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading Arti\u00adfi\u00adcial Intel\u00adli\u00adgence and Mag\u00adi\u00adcal Think\u00ading (Ed Fes\u00ader, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cBuild\u00ading a com\u00adput\u00ader is pre\u00adcise\u00adly \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2019\/04\/05\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-197\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 197\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Artificial intelligence, religion at Stanford, the college admissions scandal, men and women are actually different, how the Democratic party is surging leftward, a guy who hated CS Lewis, and a godly public servant. 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