Cambridge Publishing wants us to license our books for use in AI training. They are apparently aware that a lot of our books have already been used that way without permission. As far as I have been able to find out, mine have. Anyone have a view about the pros and cons of agreeing to license?

Singer sent me an article in which a paper of mine was supposedly quoted. Trouble is, I never said what I was quoted as saying. Singer promises to handle these situations. So far, all they've done is tell me to write to the authors of the paper myself.

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Living room with family

living room with family

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"a few hours after the new Time cover dropped, Mr. Musk posted on the social media platform he owns to flatter the president, writing, “I love @realDonaldTrump as much as a straight man can love another man.”

EM thinks love is a matter of degree, with romantic attachment being the maximum.

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Happy New Year to you, too!

Cleo acting like a cat.

It's also amazing that he's one of the richest people in the world and still has to kowtow to somebody else. You'd think all that money would at least make you free.

Cleo watching kitten reels on Facebook

I was delighted to see yesterday that the Times listed Hampton Sides' The Wide Wide Sea as one of the ten best books of the year. The book is about Captain Cook's third and final voyage. I've read it and I think it's wonderful.

#booksky

Thanks!

To any philosophers out there: I would be glad to know if you know of any good philosophical work on the nature of opposites. I am particularly interested in the question how opposites are related to privatives.

I apologize for the fact that my first post on this new medium is a little obscure.