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Judge Hercules or Judge Bayes?
Here is the abstract of one of our thought experiments, which we have been working on over the holidays: This paper explores two possible connections between hard cases in law and Newcomb’s Paradox in philosophy. One is that Newcomb’s Problem is … Continue reading
Posted in Law, Philosophy, Probability
Tagged Hard Cases, Prediction Theory of Law, Thought Experiments
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Publish or perish …
According to our friend Walter Olson at overlawyered.com: “CNN, NYT, AP, NBC, ABC, the BBC, Guardian, Telegraph, and the CBC, will *not* be running Charlie-Hebdo cartoons, though a number of American publications did so, including Daily Beast, Vox, and Bloomberg. No UK paper on Thursday … Continue reading
Nous somme Charlie Hebdo
Nous ne sommes pas encore libres?
Hitler’s judges and the war on drugs
We finally saw the film Judgment at Nuremberg for the first time last night at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) in Washington DC. This film depicts the trial of four Nazi judges accused of … Continue reading
Posted in Law, Questions Rarely Asked
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How many time zones are in our galaxy?
“Oh, man.” (Props to kottke for the pointer.)
Should you take this bet?
Imagine you and 99 other people are randomly assigned a number between 1 and 100. Imagine too that there is a room containing 100 boxes, that each box has also been randomly assigned a number between 1 and 100, and that … Continue reading
Posted in Probability, Questions Rarely Asked
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“Google’s Philosopher”
That is the title of this intriguing essay by Robert Herritt in the Pacific Standard — our favorite e-mag, by the way — summarizing the “philosophy of information” as well as the original work of Luciano Floridi, an Oxford philosopher who is inventing “entirely new ways … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Law, Philosophy, Property Rights, Questions Rarely Asked
Tagged Coase, Facebook, Google+, Information Markets, Privacy, Right to be forgotten
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2004 Indian Ocean tsunami map
Props to tigranater for the pointer.
prior probability 