Something mentioned briefly in this paper but which was not explored in detail was the idea of using the eigenvalue of the principal eigenvector to represent total goodness in the world.

Eigenjesus rating is a recursively defined morality metric that always favors cooperation, and gives more weight to cooperations with moral bots than to cooperations with immoral bots.

Initially he was a great help – building the yurts, showing us how to weave – but then he claimed he couldn’t do any work in the fields or vegetable patch because the Great Spirit didn’t allow him to cope with rectangles or squares.

The world of D-Bag Poetry is wild and profound.

For no tea-party can ever have been so exactly chronicled as this ceremony in Coburg Square.

These articles also call one to a basic level of self-reflexivity, which is always a desideratum

Bad writing of the day, 6/19/2014

Emoticons seem pedestrian and unimaginative next to this level of innovation.

This period was called the “dead horse” time, and it usually lasted a month or two.

Today’s Doniger gem:

Other Vedic gods too are personifications of natural forces, particularly solar gods, as Müller rightly noted but overemphasized.  (He was mocked for it too; one scholar wrote an article proving that by his own criteria, Max Müller himself was a solar god.)

From female Infinity, male dexterity was born, and from male dexterity, female Infinity was born.