Coleman Hughes✓

Today is the day! My first book, "The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America," is now out in fine bookstores everywhere! The Audiobook is read by yours truly!

Round two sparring with Dave. Thanks for having me on @ComicDaveSmith

RT @ComicDaveSmith: Today at 1 pm ET @coldxman on Part of the Problem!!! Live to the site at 1pm, up everywhere tonight.

RT @ConvoswColeman: "We are shutting down all oil and gas production" @KonstantinKisin on how Europe's climate policies are making the whole continent colder and poorer. Watch the full conversation with @coldxman on Youtube.

RT @Sports_Multiver: What just happened in Knicks vs 76ers:

RT @PAHoyeck: The problem with using obscure philosophical vocabulary to sound smart is that every once in a while you use a word wrong and end up looking totally epistemological.

RT @ArtButSports: The Abduction of Persephone, by Nicola Maria Rossi, early 18th c

RT @TheFigen_: A fascinating visualization of Vivaldi’s “Winter” that makes the music feel more intense. Almost like seeing the sound itself. credit Gilmar Araújo - Conde X

I had a high school history teacher who spent the entire year teaching us to develop "casual" accounts of various historical events: Civil War, WWII, etc. I was confused why we should be nonchalant about such important events, but kept my puzzlement to myself. Eventually I realized she was misreading the word "causal".

RT @PAHoyeck: Still one of the funniest philosophy anecdotes of all time

Isn't the whole idea of civility that you be civil with your enemies/ops/those who have "wronged" you? You make peace with your enemies, not your friends, right?

RT @Emi611219749: @coldxman @TheFP amazing articulate discussion about October 7

Israel’s Secret War Room: What Really Happened After October 7th

RT @MadhaniAmsal: ayn here, i wrote another manifesto but made it way shorter because people said atlas shrugged was too long, oh also i have reincarnated as an early stage vc named amsal ...

He Never Had Homework @jacobperry

These Rory Stewart memes are genuinely hilarious. However, he is also a fairly impressive person, whether or not you agree with his politics. Walking across half the middle east is no small feat. I interviewed him a few years back.

Because it's a ridiculous question. Why should my daughter eat healthier food than the average person? Why should she breath cleaner air than people living in Beijing & Mumbai? The answer to all such questions is "because I love her & can provide her something better". Period.

I notice none of Nikole Hannah-Jones' critics try to answer to the basic question she wrestled with, which is: Why should my daughter get to go to a better school than other people's kids just because I work for the New York Times?

Now that we know (with certainty) that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings, it is funny to look back on the (pre-DNA era) arguments that "experts" came up with to deny that this could be true. So naive...

RT @sapinker: An Open Letter to Scott Alexander: The dangers of AI are real, but doomerism may be counterproductive.

RT @sapinker: Suleyman's arguments against the computational theory of sentience are compelling, but one needn't accept them completely to recognize the case for assigning no rights to AI at the expense of humans: we know that humans are sentient (because each of us knows that we ourselves are sentient, and others are made of the same stuff that makes us sentient, putting aside the logical possibility of solipsism), whereas the case for AI sentience is permanently untestable and for most people extremely implausible).

RT @sapinker: Contra @slatestarcodex, my arguments against AI doomerism have never been based on the claim that it is a cult. But the responses to my open letter (together with journalistic digging by NYT and WSJ) have made this more plausible. Foremost is the invocation of tenets in the doomer catechism (particularly "instrumental convergence," the belief that intelligent agents will inevitably seek power, resources, and self-preservation as subgoals) as if they were sacred truths rather than tendentious assumptions. (IC is in fact the not-so-intelligent pursuit of a goal heedless of side effects, and the reckless empowerment of AI, that we un-doomers note are deliberate, hence avoidable, design choices, not intrinsic constituents of intelligence). I feel as if I'm doubting the Second Coming and am being told, "That's naive and ignorant; you seem to be unaware that the Apostles' Creed dictates that it will happen."