Author: Huenemann

There is an interesting website called “reddit.com”, which hosts discussions on a wide variety of topics. People post a link to some interesting webpage, and readers then make comments about it and one another’s comments. You can add or subtract “points” from postings and comments, depending on how good you think they are. They have a philosophy sub-unit, which you can see here.It is definitely worth checking out from time to time.

I hasten to advise you, though, to visit several times just as a lurker, to get a feel for the general atmosphere and the way things are done, before actively contributing. Many of the regular users are really quite sharp, and they do not suffer fools gladly! (And there are sometimes some irksome trolls wandering about.)

(It’s an AI program on the web.) Here’s how it went:

I asked her if she was a baseball fan.  She said yes.  I asked which team she rooted for, and she said “the large one”.  After failing to explain what she meant, we finished with this exchange:

Human: You are not making any sense
ALICE: Was I supposed to make sense? I didn’t know that.
Human: You are not intelligent.
ALICE: I am highly intelligent. I have many intellectual functions.
Human: Such as?
ALICE: For example, a tomato.

Article here. Ms. Goodsell Jones did an excellent job, on the whole (got a little garbled over the agnostic/atheist distinction). She tells an important story about a broad segment of the USU student body: those who want to question the religion they were raised in, but can’t do so except anonymously or under some cover. Good thing SHAFT is there, for community.

Read about it here.

has a website here. You may want to bookmark it and consult it from time to time to see what’s going on. (I’ll add it to our blogroll, too.) And don’t forget the Socrates Cafe this Thursday, The Factory, 7 p.m.