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Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies -- Random Generator. Mediagazer. Getting to QED, Part 1: Informal logic and online argumentation. Introduction For regulars at Ars Technica, the forums are as much a part of the site's identity as the articles. And where there are forums, there are flame wars. The BattleFront is infamous for its contentious threads, but arguments arise just as easily in The Observatory. What are we to do when when people disagree with one another?
Is it possible for one argument to be right while another is wrong? Or is everything just a matter of opinion? In some cases, there is a way to tell good arguments from bad using what is called informal logic. For all the differences, there are some core elements upon which everyone agrees. The fallacy fallacy A common approach to studying informal logic is to start with logical fallacies.
However, fallacies are not necessarily the best place to start learning informal logic. An example of this problem is the ad hominem fallacy. Note that we have not completely let Ben off the hook here; this is probably a fallacy, but not certainly. Breaking up an argument. Blog - Technology principle: The toy will win. 6th November 2010 Text Technology principle: The toy will win In this post I will explain an important principle that I noticed in the technology world.
I call this principle: The toy will win. What does “toy” mean? Here’s my definition for toy: Toy [noun]: A technological product which is simple and fun to use, and which may be criticized by some people as being weak and not suitable for serious work. The iPod is a good example of a toy; when the iPod first came out, it was criticized for its low specs, yet it grew to become the most popular music player ever. On the other end of the spectrum we have “enterprise products.” Examples of toys winning Let’s look at a few examples of toys winning versus competing enterprise products: Example 1: “Micro-computers”The computers that you and I use today, like our desktop computers and laptop computers and netbooks, were not originally called “computers.” There are many more examples of toys winning, but we will not explore them all here. Notes: Get Smarter - The Atlantic (July/August 2009) Pandemics. Global warming. Food shortages. No more fossil fuels.
What are humans to do? The same thing the species has done before: evolve to meet the challenge. But this time we don’t have to rely on natural evolution to make us smart enough to survive. We can do it ourselves, right now, by harnessing technology and pharmacology to boost our intelligence. Image: Anastasia Vasilakis Seventy-four thousand years ago, humanity nearly went extinct. The Mount Toba incident, although unprecedented in magnitude, was part of a broad pattern. How did we cope? Our present century may not be quite as perilous for the human race as an ice age in the aftermath of a super-volcano eruption, but the next few decades will pose enormous hurdles that go beyond the climate crisis. But here’s an optimistic scenario for you: if the next several decades are as bad as some of us fear they could be, we can respond, and survive, the way our species has done time and again: by getting smarter.
Build A Product with your community. Twitter, Facebook, and social activism. At four-thirty in the afternoon on Monday, February 1, 1960, four college students sat down at the lunch counter at the Woolworth’s in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. They were freshmen at North Carolina A. & T., a black college a mile or so away. “I’d like a cup of coffee, please,” one of the four, Ezell Blair, said to the waitress. “We don’t serve Negroes here,” she replied. The Woolworth’s lunch counter was a long L-shaped bar that could seat sixty-six people, with a standup snack bar at one end. The seats were for whites. The snack bar was for blacks. Another employee, a black woman who worked at the steam table, approached the students and tried to warn them away. By next morning, the protest had grown to twenty-seven men and four women, most from the same dormitory as the original four. By the following Monday, sit-ins had spread to Winston-Salem, twenty-five miles away, and Durham, fifty miles away.
The world, we are told, is in the midst of a revolution. Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Experiments in delinkification. A few years back, my friend Steve Gillmor, the long-time technology writer and blogger, went on a crusade against the hyperlink. He stopped putting links into his posts and other online writings. I could never quite understand his motivation, and the whole effort struck me as quixotic and silly.
I mean, wasn’t the hyperlink the formative technology of the entire World Wide Web? Wasn’t the Web a hypermedia system, for crying out loud? My view has changed. I’m still not sure what Gillmor was up to, but I now have a great deal of sympathy for his crusade. In fact, I’m beginning to think I should have joined up instead of mocking it. Links are wonderful conveniences, as we all know (from clicking on them compulsively day in and day out). The link is, in a way, a technologically advanced form of a footnote. I don’t want to overstate the cognitive penalty produced by the hyperlink (or understate the link’s allure and usefulness), but the penalty seems to be real, and we should be aware of it.