tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post4541031263030081240..comments2024-03-29T03:16:49.123-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: ENNUI, AND THEN SOMERobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-3947601552080223592020-04-01T18:45:06.674-04:002020-04-01T18:45:06.674-04:00Professor Wolff,
Since you now know how to use Zo...Professor Wolff,<br /><br />Since you now know how to use Zoom, and since you once wrote that you would like your blog participants to gather for, say, a picnic, perhaps you can call a Zoom meeting of the folks who participate here. Might take the edge off the ennui?Jennifernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-81308334625510553942020-03-31T19:55:20.858-04:002020-03-31T19:55:20.858-04:00https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLOPygVcaVEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLOPygVcaVEpranogajechttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13903628604711327100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-19774051603262843392020-03-31T19:19:49.783-04:002020-03-31T19:19:49.783-04:00My comments here are generally ignored by the in g...My comments here are generally ignored by the in group, so I will let one of the regulars comment in my stead, as I imagine Goethe would do were he alive today. Nevertheless, I have derived too much from this blog and from Prof Wolff's publications* not to offer this diversion: the <a href="https://cvd.lti.cmu.edu/cvd/login" rel="nofollow">COVID-19 Voice Detector</a>, developed by computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University (please read the disclaimers).<br /><br />* Not only from "The Future of Socialism" but from his Autobiography, which really ought to be widely read.F Lengyelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16870219925438756983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-64325868465325516332020-03-31T19:13:43.282-04:002020-03-31T19:13:43.282-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.F Lengyelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16870219925438756983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-29066115314705475322020-03-31T18:13:56.191-04:002020-03-31T18:13:56.191-04:00But not so bored as to take up a discussion of &qu...But not so bored as to take up a discussion of "The Future of Socialism" or to comment on the remark made by philosopher Elizabeth Anderson, somewhat later than Prof Wolff, that<br /><br /><i><br />There are no internal markets in the modern workplace. Indeed, the boundary of the firm is defined as the point at which markets end and authoritarian centralized planning and direction begin.<br /><br />--Anderson, Elizabeth. Private Government (The University Center for Human Values Series) (p. 39). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition. <br /></i> <br /><br />(This observation seems to have elicited sputtering animadversion from an anonymous commenter in the form of a logically invalid comparison to slavery.) <br /><br />The indeterminacy of general accounting methods cited in "The Future of Socialism" (this ought to be either a formal impossibility theorem or at least provably computationally intractable) strengthens the conclusion that executive decision making within the firm is quasi-political. <br /><br />Well, that ostrich has taken off. Perhaps someone else will summon the energy.F Lengyelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16870219925438756983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-26866523963555507142020-03-31T17:40:04.059-04:002020-03-31T17:40:04.059-04:00While we are pondering listlessness and dissatisfa...While we are pondering listlessness and dissatisfaction, I'll guess that most people, most Americans, at least, are fatigued by all the polarization and angry rhetoric, and generally supportive of political compromise. Heck, probably more than one out of four are actually politically disengaged, but I imagine that most, more tend to stand apart from partisan antipathy than engage in it.Dannyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11915977609430813824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-13242271520616175042020-03-31T11:46:43.259-04:002020-03-31T11:46:43.259-04:00My friend, meet Rule 34 - https://en.wikipedia.org...My friend, meet Rule 34 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_34_(Internet_meme)Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12795217121822522567noreply@blogger.com