The complete classic fairytale in verse (with a few prose interludes including at the beginning). It’s thematically like The Ugly Duckling, but with a grand adventure. আয় রে আমার নাতি-পুতি, আমি তোদের সেই আদিকালের ঠাকুরমা।aj re amar nat̪i-put̪i, ami t̪od̪er ʃei ad̪:i-kaler ʈʰakurmaGather around, grandkids, I am your ancient grandma. আমার এই ঝুলি ভরা কতContinue reading “Translation: বুদ্ধু ভুতুম”
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Divinity as Care
Draft 1: Disconnected in places. My objection to religions, as they are practiced, is that they involve establishing an irrational relationship of subordination to a deity or to a priest or master. (Religious art does not fall under this objection, because it does not usually require a serious commitment to subordination.) The objection rests onContinue reading “Divinity as Care”
Materialist Economics: Modeling My Own Claims
Draft 2: Added some features. Over the past year this blog has argued for a materialist political economy. The argument has three layers, and each one rests on the one before it. Physical. Labor value is conserved when goods are exchanged. That one fact is supposed to make prices follow values and split the populationContinue reading “Materialist Economics: Modeling My Own Claims”
A Semilattice Characterization of Convergent Local Self-Configuration
Draft 3: Changes Draft 2 on the status of the identity element, the CRDT comparison, the constant-operation example and one interpretation of the Telic Principle. Draft 2: Corrects Draft 1 on the scope of the conclusion and the constant-operation example. Slightly fuller explanations. Draft 1: Hopefully gets the basic idea across. The Cognitive-Theoretic Model ofContinue reading “A Semilattice Characterization of Convergent Local Self-Configuration”
Translation: হলুদ গাঁদার ফুল দে এনে দে
Folk song by Salil Chowdhury. হলুদ গাঁদার ফুল দে এনে দে,Bring in yellow marigolds সাতনরী হার কানে ঝুমকোলতাSeven-chain necklace, floral pendant রূপকুমারী মেয়ে মান করেছেThe pretty maiden has taken offence বাঁধবে না চুল সে বাঁধবে না রে ॥She won’t bind her hair, no she won’t. আজ আকাশে, আকাশ কন্যা বাদল মেলেছে,Today in the skies, theContinue reading “Translation: হলুদ গাঁদার ফুল দে এনে দে”
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Graph: Clashing Dialogue
A graph of clashing character voices from Derek Banas’ writing series part 4:
A Leftist’s Guide to Natural and Artificial Values
Note: This post is mainly addressed to leftists. A value is an idea that remains static across various opportunities to choose an action. Humans have two broad categories of values. We naturally value wealth. Valuing wealth is the result of a selection effect. Most of the planning we do is about how to finance ourContinue reading “A Leftist’s Guide to Natural and Artificial Values”
What is To Be Done: Human Edition
I have written extensively on this blog on how to create a more egalitarian society, and thereby avert the crisis of authoritarianism rising all across the globe. The issue is that we’re talking about humans here. Humans are never going to do any of it. So I’m going to propose an alternative course of actionContinue reading “What is To Be Done: Human Edition”
