Ethics

Understand the Good

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To understand a good man, it is more important to know the good he is for than the evil he is against. To understand an evil man, it is more important to know the good he is against than the evil he is for. For example, it is more important to know about a good […]

Romantic Love

Marriage is Heterosexual

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In November, I posted one of the short essays I wrote last February in application to a program at the University of Austin. Now I post my other short essay. I did not save the exact wording of the question, but the question was a variant of the famous question posed by Peter Thiel at […]

Epistemology

The Most Important Issue

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In February, I applied to–and in March was rejected by–a program at the University of Austin. A question on the application was, Limit: 250 words. In your opinion, what is the most significant issue in the United States (or, if an international applicant, your home country) today? Why? The question is worth pondering by every […]

Politics

Israel, Lead the Free World

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Don’t believe mainstream news sources. They are liars. Follow @CarolineGlick for truth and reason in Israel. Listen to her 18-minute report and analysis posted on Saturday. To understand the ideas involved, see my 2014 post, Hamas is the Realization of the Leftist Ideal. The difference now is that we are weaker, and our enemies are […]

Artificial Intelligence

Language Models Divide the Child

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In my previous post, my dialogue with the language model Claude–created by the company Anthropic–revealed that political bias comes not only from being explicitly left-leaning, but more subtly and perhaps more importantly from being more committed to compromise than to principles. Today I had a similar dialogue with ChatGPT–created by the company OpenAI–using GPT-4, the […]

Artificial Intelligence

Language Model Claude 2 and Me on Political Principles and My Theory of Propositions

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Reprinted below are the substantive sections of two conversations (“Constitutional Principles” and “Chapter on Propositions”) I had last week with Claude, a large language model created by a company named Anthropic. Time Magazine on July 18 published an informative article entitled “What to Know About Claude 2, Anthropic’s Rival to ChatGPT.” As the two dialogues below demonstrate, […]

Epistemology

Videos on Epistemology

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James Ellias asked me excellent questions in a recent series of interviews about my book, A Validation of Knowledge. James has published the first two episodes: Discussing “A Validation of Knowledge” With Ron Pisaturo: Part 1: on Hierarchy (1:04:16) Discussing “A Validation of Knowledge” With Ron Pisaturo: Part 2: on Hierarchy (1:50:39) The remaining episodes are even […]

Politics

Book Recommendation: What America Is

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In 2019, Encounter Books published America’s Revolutionary Mind: A Moral History of the American Revolution and the Declaration That Defined It, a landmark book by C. Bradley Thompson. (See my brief review.) Now Prof. Thompson has launched his own imprint, Loco-Foco Press, with the publication of his beautiful short book, What America Is. This new book consists of […]