Hans van Ditmarsch, Open University, the Netherlands ABSTRACT The following riddle that came to me by way of the well-known computer scientist Moshe Vardi, was spreading like wildfire while I was teaching at the logic summer school ESSLLI 2003 in…
The aspiration of philosophy can be understood as the integration of all theories, and the aspiration of mathematics as the exploration of all consistent languages. Philosophy starts out with natural languages, mathematics with formal ones. Just as it is hard…
The “surveillance capitalism” thesis holds that companies spy because data lets them conduct devastatingly effective influence operations while racing past regulators who might otherwise rein in their operations. Cory Doctorow believes this gives undue credence to Big Tech’s sales literature…
